Syria: Who Needs Annapolis?
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Syria convenes a conference of rejectionists demanding an end to peace talks with Israel
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Israel and Syria must conduct direct peace talks, without a mediator, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying, in response to Syrian President Bashar Assad who proposed third-party involvement.
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POIANA BRASOV, Oct. 14. - Russia has agreed to send warships to help Natoâs naval patrols monitoring suspicious vessels in the Mediterranean , as part of a drive for closer counter-terrorism cooperation between Moscow and the western alliance.
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Syria may once again be the instigator behind the turmoil, but al-Qaeda and its allies are likely to reap the benefits
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DAMASCUS, Syria -- The State Department's second in command said yesterday that Syria had improved security along its border with Iraq but needed to do more to keep armed supporters of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from sneaking across.
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By Khaled Yacoub OweisDAMASCUS - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan began talks with Syrian officials on Thursday to seek Syria's help in bolstering a truce between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah.Before arriving ...
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President Bashar Assad passed from the defensive to the offensive at a conference of emigrants in Damascus, explaining his countryâs stands on Resolution 1559, the report of Kofi Annan and the American-French pressures to withdraw its troops from
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He was against it before he was for it. The same president who mocked the idea of talking with Iran and Syria as recently as two weeks ago is now sending emissaries to a regional conference to talk with Iran and Syria.
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Libano: sbarcati i primi italiani Kofi Annan incontra Assad                                                                                                  GiÃ  su territorio libanese un gruppo di una ventina di militari italiani. Atterrati ieri in elicottero, stanno prendendo contatti con il comando della missione Unifil.Il segretario generale dell'Onu Kofi Annan Ã¨ stato ricevuto questa mattina a Damasco dal presidente siriano Bashar al-Assad. Scopo della missione, ottenere un sostegno alla tregua in atto tra esercito israeliano e le milizie di Hezbollah, di cui Siria e Iran sono i principali sponsor.
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When Israel sends its agents to commit a crime in Syria, would it be implementing an American policy? The course of American pressure, which is now focused on Syria, supposes this; this is what might happen
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Ariel Sharon should meet with Bashar Assad. Although Syria has not expelled the terror groups from Damascus, how could Assad be worse than Mahmoud Abbas, with whom Sharon is willing to meet, as Newsweek reported this week?
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Mideast isn't 'festering'; it's spoiled  Sunday's "At Issue" headline opines, "Talking to Iran, Syria is a wise course for U.S." Unfortunately, the reader is not given any rationale as to exactly why there is wisdom in this course of action.
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Travel: Is Damascus the new Marrakesh? We've asked top travel insiders to pick their destinations to watch
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DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria and North Korea denied yesterday they are cooperating on a Syrian nuclear program, and they accused US officials of spreading the allegations for political reasons - either to back Israel or to block progress on a deal between Washington and Pyongyang.
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North Korea may be cooperating with Syria on some sort of nuclear facility in Syria, according to new intelligence the United States has gathered over the past six months, sources said. The evidence, said to come primarily from Israel, includes dramatic satellite imagery that led some U.S. officials...
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THERE ARE occasions when symbolic gestures in the realm of diplomacy are worth making, and the UN Security Council resolution that Washington and Paris sponsored Thursday to denounce Syria&#39;s flagrant manipulation of Lebanese politics was one of those
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The United Nations Security Council has called on Syria to pull its remaining 14,000 troops out of Lebanon. In a unanimously passed declaration, it demanded that Syria respect Lebanon&#39;s &quot;territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence&quot;.