Syria describes U.S. travel ban as absurd
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Syria on Tuesday described as absurd a travel ban imposed by the United States on Syrian officials who Washington accuses of undermining the Lebanese government.
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Stepping up pressure on Syria, U.S.  officials said on Wednesday they were considering new economic  and other sanctions to push the Syrian government to stop  suspected financial flows to Iraqi insurgents.
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The US says it has "an increasing list of problems" with Damascus, after Syria forms a new "front" with Iran.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq indefinitely halted all flights to and from Syria and closed a border crossing with Iran as the government prepares for a new security crackdown aimed at crushing violence in the capital and surrounding regions, a member of parliament and an airport official said yesterday.
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The United States would like other   nations to join it in imposing sanctions on Syria, U.S.   Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview   published on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- A senior State Department official has applied for a visa to travel to Syria to address the problems of Iraqi refugees, further eroding the Bush administration's previous position of not engaging in direct talks with Damascus.
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Syria is responding with a mixture of bravado and denial to mounting accusations by the United States and Iraq that it&#39;s a staging ground for the Iraqi insurgency with key
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Syria said on Saturday it did not accept   the deployment of European guards on the Lebanese side of the   two countries' border to help prevent alleged arms shipments to   Hizbollah.
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Stunned by revelations of police incompetence in the case of a Canadian man deported to Syria, the government launched an investigation on Tuesday into claims by three other men who say they were tortured in Syria because of information provided by Canadian authorities.
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Hoss: &#39;It should be made clear that the US opposed the constitutional amendment ... in order to exert diplomatic pressure on Syria&#39;.
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The UNHCR warns that new Syrian visa restrictions are preventing Iraqi refugees from escaping violence.
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U.S. lawmakers on Thursday offered apologies to a Canadian citizen who was deported by U.S. counterterrorism officials to Syria, where he says he was imprisoned and tortured.
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TORONTO, Sept. 18 -- Canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to Syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found Monday.
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A prominent Syrian dissident, who the United States had urged be allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment, has been arrested, a Syrian human rights group said Tuesday.
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US Secretary of State says Washington wants tough report from Annan on Syria&#39;s compliance with UN resolution. By Matthew Lee - WASHINGTON.
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Syria's foreign minister on Friday said Damascus won't deal with the international tribunal being set up by the U.N. to prosecute suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
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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.