Syria: Won't force Iraqis to return
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Syria will not force any Iraqi refugees to return to their homeland despite the exchange of harsh words between the two countries, the U.N. refugee chief said Thursday.
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Syria is unwilling to put pressure on its Lebanon allies in the crisis that has left it without a president for over a month, Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said in comments published on Monday.
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Syria has not withdrawn its  troops from Lebanon, as required by a resolution of the U.N.  Security Council adopted earlier this month, U.N.  Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday.
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Syria has admitted more than 800,000 Iraqis who have fled the violence in their country, the official Al-Baath newspaper quoted Syria's Interior Ministry as saying Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON: The United States believes Syria is now willing to cooperate with Iraqi authorities and the US-led coalition on patrolling the Syria-Iraq border, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said here on Wednesday.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his country can play a major role in bringing security to Iraq.
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Talks with Syria suggests the U.S. may want out in the not-too-distant future
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WASHINGTON -- Syrian officials have begun returning Iraqi assets that Saddam Hussein kept in a Syrian bank, but not enough to satisfy the United States, a Treasury Department official said.
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Syria stood firm under a new round of pressures from the United States and Israel, seeking to strengthen solidarity with the Arab countries while brushing aside Israeli military threats.
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Syria on Tuesday insisted that it had not dropped a demand that Israel stick to a promise said to have been made by late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to abandon all Syrian land under any peace treaty.
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Syria has not withdrawn its troops from Lebanon, as required by a resolution of the UN Security Council adopted earlier this month, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday.
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The ruling party newspaper in Syria said on Wednesday a decision to redeploy some troops within Lebanon was not linked to relations with Washington and could be reversed if necessary in future.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says that Syria has not withdrawn its troops from Lebanon, as demanded in a Security Council resolution adopted last month.
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Kurds are on the move again in northern Iraq &#151; but this time they're not fleeing.
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Italy says it has no intention of withdrawing its troops from Iraq despite the demands of kidnappers who seized an Italian journalist.
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Syria has not withdrawn its  troops from Lebanon, as required by a resolution of the U.N.  Security Council adopted earlier this month, U.N.  Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 -- Syria's foreign minister, in a rare visit to Baghdad by a Syrian official, on Sunday pledged cooperation in stemming the sectarian violence that threatens Iraq, even as scores of people were killed or found dead across the country.