Kerry: U.S. should talk with Iran, Syria
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Sen. John Kerry, on a Mideast tour taking him to Damascus for talks with President Bashar Assad, said Friday that the Bush administration's rejection of dialogue with Syria and Iran to try to calm Iraq is a mistake.
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Iran and Syria, both locked in rows with  the United States, said on Wednesday they will form a common  front to face challenges and threats.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Syria and Iran on Friday to do more to prevent arms smuggling to Lebanon, citing "disturbing reports" from the Lebanese and Israeli governments of alleged violations of the U.N. arms embargo.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad arrived in Iran Saturday to discuss Iraq and other Middle East issues with President Mahmoud Ahmadinajed, state-run television reported.
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BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad is genuine in his stated desire to restart peace talks with Israel, and the United States needs to play a more active role in bringing both parties
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Iran and the United States are playing a complicated diplomatic game, jockeying for influence in Iraq as violence there spirals out of control. But there is one major wild-card in dueling summits planned for coming days: Syria.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder urged the United States to back European diplomatic efforts for resolving Iran's nuclear issue and called for a closer transatlantic dialogue in an interview published on ...
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The United States would be willing to attend a regional conference in Iraq next month that would include Iran and Syria, the White House said on Tuesday.
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President Bush urged Syria and Iran not to meddle in Iraqi internal affairs on Wednesday after Iraq&#39;s defense minister complained the two were helping the Iraqi insurgency.
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Last weekend's Baghdad talks brought the U.S. and Iran together in the same room. Now Washington must realize that even its moderate Arab allies want to engage Tehran
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DAMASCUS -- A senior US diplomat urged Syria's president yesterday to withdraw his country's troops from Lebanon and stop interfering in internal Lebanese affairs. William J. Burns, the US assistant secretary of state for the Near East and the highest ranking US official to visit Damascus in more than a year, also said Syria must take &quot;concrete action&quot; to cooperate ...
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Iran and the United States are playing a complicated diplomatic game, jockeying for influence in Iraq as violence there spirals out of control, but there is one major wild card in dueling summits planned for coming days: Syria.
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US President George W. Bush on Wednesday urged Iran and Syria not to meddle in internal affairs of Iraq. &quot;We will continue to make it clear, to both Syria and Iran that... meddling in the internal affairs
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's recent tough talk on Iran likely will be a topic of discussion when he meets U.S. officials in Washington.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell does not believe the United States will attack Iran and says Washington should speak to Tehran and Syria.
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During a meeting with Syrian leader Bashar el-Assad, PA interim leader Abu Mazen stated that in the event of a renewal of talks between Damascus and Syria, there must be a dialogue with Lebanon to align positions.
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If elected U.S. president, Sen. John Kerry would offer Iran a deal allowing it to keep its nuclear power plants if it gave up the right to retain bomb-making nuclear fuel, said Kerry's vice presidential running mate in an interview published on Monday.