Syria's Assad holds talks in Iran over Iraq
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad discussed instability in Iraq and the crisis in Lebanon with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the start of a two-day visit to Iran on Saturday, the official IRNA news agency said.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel offered President Bashar al-Assad of Syria a proposal to begin direct peace negotiations and advised him not to wait for American mediation.
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President Bush urged Syria and Iran  not to meddle in Iraqi internal affairs on Wednesday after  Iraq's defense minister complained the two were helping the  Iraqi insurgency.
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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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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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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan held   talks in Iran on Saturday to seek help in shoring up a   Hizbollah-Israel ceasefire and other issues that diplomats said   would include Iran's nuclear standoff with the West.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is attempting to broker a deal with Iran to secure safe haven for a group of Iraqi nuclear scientists who were sent by Saddam Hussein to Damascus before the US invasion.
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Iran said on Sunday it wanted to discuss the activities of "terrorist groups" when it next holds talks with the United States about boosting security in Iraq.
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The Bush administration opened the door yesterday to one-on-one discussions with both Iran and Syria at this weekend's Baghdad conference, as long as the talks are limited to the subject of peace and stability in Iraq.
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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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President Bashar al-Assad met with North Korean officials this week as Damascus hardens against the West after a September Israeli airstrike.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's neighbors, including Iran and Syria, have agreed to join US and British representatives to discuss the Iraqi security crisis at a regional conference Saturday in Baghdad, the government said yesterday.
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President Bashar Assad said cooperation &#151; and negotiations &#151; between Syria and the United States could be the "last chance" to avoid full-scale civil war in Iraq.
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Iraq's neighbors, including Iran and Syria, will join U.S. and British representatives at a regional conference here on the Iraqi security crisis
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday to discuss efforts to form a unity government, the official SANA news agency said.
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Iran says it will take part in security talks in Baghdad which include the US, if it is "in Iraq's best interests".
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Iraq invited officials from Iran, Syria and other neighboring nations to Baghdad next month to discuss the security situation in the country, a government official said Thursday.