Even with sanctions, Syrians embrace KFC and Gap
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With American goods already flooding Damascus, analysts say lifting restrictions will help counter Iran's influence.
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DAMASCUS -- The crowd begins filling the courtyard of Opaline, a trendy restaurant, as late evening teeters toward early morning. Many arrive by golf cart, whisked through alleys to the wooden doors of a centuries-old Arab home within Old City walls.
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Thousands of Lebanese chanting  anti-Syrian slogans flooded into streets around the home of  slain former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri on Wednesday amid  mounting U.S.-led pressure on Syria to get out of Lebanon.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 22 -- Edy parked his motorbike and pressed into the crowd beside the local mosque Saturday afternoon, clutching a white coupon in his right hand. He squeezed under a blue awning where tsunami refugees and other indigent survivors were claiming plastic bags with donated chunks of meat to celebrate one of Islam's most important holidays.
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Iran and Syria, both locked in rows with the United States, said on Wednesday they would form a common front to face challenges and threats.
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AITA AL-SHAAB, Lebanon  - He passed all his school exams, helped out in his father's sandwich bar, ran a bicycle shop and still found time to train with local Hezbollah guerrillas in this village on Lebanon's border with Israel.
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opposing sanctions, campaigning against the war and working for the survival of the countryâs neediest when all other foreign aid workers had fled.
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The United Nations Security Council approved a rare resolution against an Arab state -- without naming names -- late Thursday. The resolution is intended to stop Syrian meddling in Lebanese politics and affairs.
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ZENICA, Bosnia -- They met in 1985 as Syrian immigrants in Croatia, two students in their 20s grappling with a language and a culture they didn't understand.
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Young Arabs are turning to hip hop to express their feelings about  conflicts in the Middle East
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G. Willi-Food is an import company with one problem: It serves war-torn Israel.
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Stepping up pressure on Syria, U.S.  officials said on Wednesday they were considering new economic  and other sanctions to push the Syrian government to stop  suspected financial flows to Iraqi insurgents.
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SAIDA ZEINAB, Syria  - Suffering kidney disease and living in a Damascus slum, Amal Jabar lost her only means of support when Syria closed its borders to Iraqi refugees a few weeks ago.
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Thousands of Lebanese students and activists defied government warnings Friday and demonstrated against Syria's domination of their country.
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After six months of public tension between Syria and the United States, relations have settled down into a more pragmatic mode. At least this is how Syria's ambassador to Washington,    Imad Moustapha , describes it.
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The isolation of Syria appears to be breaking as Damascus seeks deals with the Saudis and the Lebanese.
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THE MONTH since Yasser Arafat&#39;s death has seen an encouraging flurry of movement on all sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.