Syria's Assad in Iran for talks on Iraq
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Iran on Saturday to discuss instability in Iraq and the crisis in Lebanon, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri   al-Maliki will make his first official visit to neighboring   Iran on Monday to discuss political and security issues, an   Iraqi government spokesman said on Saturday.
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The United States and their adversaries in Iran and Syria may for the first time since the Iraq war began meet face to face at a conference next month to discuss the situation in Iraq.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he would be willing to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Asad under certain conditions.
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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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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan held   talks in Iran on Saturday to seek help in shoring up a   Hizbollah-Israel ceasefire and to discuss Tehran's nuclear   standoff with the West.
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The US is attending Baghdad talks, along with Iran and Syria, to try to win regional support to stabilise Iraq.
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President Bashar Assad rejected claims that Syria's alliance with Iran had been weakened by Damascus' participation in last month's U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference, insisting Thursday that ties between the two countries will never be shaken.
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Iran's foreign minister indicated Monday his country would take part in at least part of an international conference on Iraq in Baghdad, which would be the first U.S.-Iranian contact in more than two years.
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Syria on Thursday rejected Iraqi accusations that it and Iran were supporting al-Qaida-linked insurgents in Iraq. Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan said Wednesday that Iranian and Syrian intelligence agents
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Officials from regional states including Iran and Syria will join U.S. and British envoys at a meeting in Baghdad next month to seek ways to stabilize Iraq, the Iraqi foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that Iran is ready to hold more talks with the United States over stabilizing Iraq, the state-run news agency reported.
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Delegates from the United States and Iran are at the same table Saturday, at a meeting in Baghdad to discuss security for war-torn Iraq. The meeting could break the ice or offer new opportunities for discord between Washington and Tehran. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he did not want his country to be a political battleground.
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TEHRAN -- Iran and Syria, both locked in diplomatic battles with the United States, said yesterday they would form a common front to face challenges and threats. "We are ready to help Syria on all grounds," Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref of Iran said in Tehran after meeting Prime Minister Naji al-Otari of Syria. Syria's ambassador to the United States, ...
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Iraqi envoys will visit Iran and four other neighboring countries in the next few days to discuss convening a regional conference on calming the violence here, but will not include Syria, an aide to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Wednesday.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to Saudi Arabia on Saturday to hold talks on regional issues, an Iranian official said on Thursday.
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the Anglican Church, held talks on Thursday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the Middle East, Islam and terrorism, the official SANA news agency said.