Panel to urge U.S. talks with Syria, Iran: report
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A draft report prepared for an influential panel considering U.S. alternatives for Iraq urges direct talks with Iran and Syria, but sets no schedule for troop withdrawal, The New York Times reported on Monday.
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U.S. Senator John Kerry, the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 2004, said on Thursday the U.S. administration should talk to Syria and Iran.
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The United States accused Iran in talks on Tuesday of increasing support for militias involved in bloodshed in Iraq but, in a rare sign of cooperation, agreed with Tehran to set up a panel to improve security.
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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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DAMASCUS -- A senior US diplomat urged Syria's president yesterday to withdraw his country's troops from Lebanon and stop interfering in internal Lebanese affairs. William J. Burns, the US assistant secretary of state for the Near East and the highest ranking US official to visit Damascus in more than a year, also said Syria must take &quot;concrete action&quot; to cooperate ...
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Iran and Syria, both locked in rows with the United States, said on Wednesday they would form a common front to face challenges and threats.
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Major powers will begin discussing   an Iran sanctions resolution at a meeting in Europe next week   if Tehran continues to defy a U.N. Security Council demand to   halt uranium enrichment, the U.S. State Department said on   Wednesday.
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France, Britain and Germany are drafting  a resolution on Iran for a key meeting of the U.N. nuclear  watchdog next week and Washington is pushing the trio to  include some tough language, diplomats said on Thursday.
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The U.N. atomic watchdog agency began a key meeting Monday that will consider a European draft resolution on Iran's nuclear program, with the United States lobbying its allies to have Tehran hauled before the Security Council.
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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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DAMASCUS -- Syria told a visiting State Department official yesterday that it was 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. US officials rarely visit Syria, although Washington has said in recent months it wants to reach out to Damascus ...
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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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Most members of the U.N. nuclear   watchdog's governing board, a barometer of world sentiment on   Iran, were likely on Tuesday to champion last-ditch talks to   defuse a stand-off over Iran's atomic program, diplomats say.
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The Bush administration is holding  talks with European allies on a possible package of economic  incentives for Iran as part of efforts to persuade Tehran to  suspend uranium enrichment, The New York Times reported  Tuesday.
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Iranian and Syrian interference in Lebanon is a major U.S. concern and will be a subject of discussion during President Bush's trip to the Middle East later this week, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Monday.
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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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Damascus has accused the United States  of interfering in the affairs of Lebanon and Syria, saying  Washington had brought undue pressure to force a U.N.  resolution last week on foreign influence in Lebanon.