U.S. Ambassador in Syria Summoned Home for Talks
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The United States on Tuesday  recalled its ambassador to Syria for urgent consultations to  show its deep displeasure with Damascus following the killing  of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
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The United States is sending a team  of federal agents to Syria to investigate a failed attack on  the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, a State Department spokeswoman  said on Tuesday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza   Rice met Libya's Foreign Minister on Saturday in their first   encounter since the United States restored full diplomatic ties   with its former foe last May.
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Senator Bill Nelson met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday, a week after a U.S. bipartisan panel recommended the Bush administration engage Syria to help stabilize Iraq.
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Syria is indicating a willingness to resume peace negotiations after more than four years of deadlock.
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Maher Arar, a Syrian-Canadian man that the United States deported to Syria but who has been cleared of being a terrorist, remains on a U.S. watch list, U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins says.
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The European Union's foreign policy chief will urge Syria on Wednesday to do more to help ease tensions in Lebanon and Iraq during a visit that will end a two-year freeze on high-level EU contacts with Damascus.
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The United States signaled on Sunday it would invite Syria and other Arab states to a Middle East peace conference but suggested they must renounce violence and genuinely seek an end to the conflict.
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U.S. Senator Bill Nelson met Syrian  President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday, a week after a U.S.  bipartisan panel recommended the Bush administration engage  Syria to help stabilize Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- The foreign ministers of Iraq and Syria formally announced the resumption of diplomatic relations yesterday, with pledges to strengthen communication and security between the two neighbors.
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Syria told a visiting U.S. State Department official Monday that it is willing to engage in "serious" dialogue with Washington on all Middle East issues, just days after both countries attended a conference in Baghdad on restoring security to Iraq.
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The State Department's second-ranking official is traveling to Syria to talk with officials there about the infiltration of insurgents across the Syrian border into Iraq.
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A US envoy  holds further talks with political leaders in Lebanon trying to bring an end to the presidential crisis.
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WASHINGTON -- Even as pressure mounts for the United States to work with the Syrian government, the White House and the State Department have been quietly building ties with Syrian dissidents, holding meetings in Washington and Damascus that some describe as a search for credible alternatives to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Comments by United Nations special envoy to the Middle East Terje Roed-Larsen regarding Syrian President Bashar Assad&#39;s willingness to resume peace talks with Israel were scoffed at yesterday by senior political sources in Jerusalem.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan meets Syria's president to seek help in bolstering the truce in Lebanon.
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DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian President Bashar Assad is ready to resume peace talks with Israel &quot;without conditions,&quot; a top UN envoy said yesterday.