Syria, Iraq restore ties to combat militants
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Iraq and Syria restored full diplomatic relations on Tuesday after a 24-year rift in a move Iraq hopes can help stem what it says is Syrian support for militants and encourage other Arab states to rally to its aid.
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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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The US says Syria has agreed to tighten its border with Iraq to stop militants crossing the border.
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Syria and Russia, one-time allies driven apart by the collapse of the Soviet Union and brought closer again by American policies, both stand to gain from a relationship reinvigorated by Syrian President Bashar Assad's visit to Moscow.
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Both Iraq's National Library and the Iraq Museum are recovering from the war with international help.
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Suicide bombers killed 29 people in Baghdad on Sunday, after a meeting of officials of world powers, Iraq and neighboring states agreed it was vital to all to stop sectarian violence spreading across the region.
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Just four months after imposing economic sanctions on Syria, the US now plans tight coordination with Syrian troops along a 350-mile border with Iraq to help keep out foreign terrorists.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Syria and Iran are willing to help stabilize Iraq, as the Iraq Study Group recommended yesterday, 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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Iraq says it will help Turkey deal with Kurdish rebels on its territory and resolve tensions through dialogue.
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Syria and Iraq signed on to a plan Monday to cooperate in combating terrorism and crime, the official SUNA Syrian news agency said.
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In a shift, the US plans to talk to Iraq's neighbors, including Iran and Syria, about the region. What do key players hope to get?
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The number of foreign fighters entering Iraq from Syria has decreased noticeably in recent months, corresponding to a similar decrease in suicide bombings and other attacks by the group al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials.
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Iraq's neighbors including Iran and Syria have agreed to join U.S. and British representatives to discuss the Iraqi security crisis at a regional conference March 10 in Baghdad, the government said Wednesday.
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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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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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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his country can play a major role in bringing security to Iraq.
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The United States says Syria has agreed to implement a series of measures to improve the security of its border with Iraq. The decision follows two days of talks in Damascus involving officials from the Syrian