U.S. to Join Iraq Meeting With Iran and Syria
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It is the first such engagement between the Bush administration and those two countries in three years.
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The United States and Iran have set a date for ambassador-level talks in Baghdad on the deteriorating security situation in Iraq &#151; the first such meeting since late May, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday.
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Iran, accused by Washington of backing militants in Iraq, is reviewing Baghdad's invitation to attend a regional conference on ways of easing tensions in Iran's neighbor, a senior official said on Wednesday.
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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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Plans for security talks between Iraq and its neighbors may now also include the United States and Britain.
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The United States and Iran will hold a second round of critical talks on the future of Iraq in the next 10 days, possibly as early as Saturday, according to U.S. and Middle Eastern officials. The initiative comes despite mounting tensions between the two nations on such issues as Iran's nuclear...
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Iran and the United States are set to hold their first bilateral talks in almost three decades to discuss Iraq.
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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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The United States on Thursday sent its clearest signal yet it is open to bilateral talks with Iran and Syria by saying it will not rebuff them if they wish to discuss stabilizing Iraq at a regional meeting this weekend.
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Iran says it will take part in a US-sponsored conference on election plans for Iraq due to be held in Cairo next month.
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Iran and the United States will meet shortly to discuss security in Iraq, following up on their landmark meeting in May, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Tuesday.
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The U.S. and Iranian ambassadors to Iraq met in Baghdad on Tuesday to discuss the grim security issues in the country.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States is ready to hold new direct talks with Iran on the deteriorating security situation in Iraq, the State Department said yesterday. The Bush administration accuses Tehran of supporting Shi'ite insurgents there.
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Syria and Iran are willing to help stabilize Iraq, as the Iraq Study Group recommended Wednesday, but both countries will want something in return and neither has a magic solution to the chaos, Mideast officials and analysts said.
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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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BAGHDAD -- The United States and Iran have set a date for ambassador-level talks in Baghdad on the deteriorating security situation in Iraq -- the first such meeting since late May, US and Iraqi officials said yesterday.
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Washington is sending a veteran Middle East hand. Tehran's envoy is a British-educated diplomat considered one of Iran's top analysts of the West. Combine that with a flexible agenda and a matchmaking Iraqi host &#151; and the international gathering Saturday to help steer Iraq's future also appears as a prime opportunity for some icebreaking overtures between Iran and the United States.