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Iraq's border with Syria runs for hundreds of miles through barren land patrolled by a relative scattering of security forces. But despite claims about exiled Saddam Hussein loyalists sneaking across to disrupt Iraq's upcoming elections, the only evidence around one key outpost is faded slogans of Saddam's banned Baath Party painted on the wall of a decaying grain elevator.
Syria warned Israel on Thursday it risked closing the door to renewed peace talks, a day after the Israeli parliament agreed to consider a bill that would make it far more difficult to return the occupied Golan.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Iranian and Syrian defense ministers pledged during a meeting in Damascus to work in coordination to counter the regional threat they see posed by Israel.
Beirut - Lebanon said Thursday that Syria had asked it to extradite 25 Lebanese officials to appear in court for questioning in connection with the murder of former premier Rafik Hariri. Former ministers Marawan Hamadeh, Charles Rizk and Hasan al-Sab...
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RABIYA, Iraq (AP) — Iraq's border with Syria runs for hundreds of miles through barren land patrolled by scattered security forces.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- With Syrian-proxy Hezbollah gaining a foothold in Beirut, Washington should call on Damascus to step in line for the benefit of the region, an analyst says.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Tuesday his government was keen on improving its ties with Syria, strained since the killing of his father Rafiq Hariri in 2005.
A Syrian court has asked 25 Lebanese figures, including the police chief and top prosecutor, to appear for questioning over the murder of their country's ex-premier, a Lebanese official said on Wednesday.
The United States and other envoys at the United Nations slammed Iran on Thursday for transporting arms and ammunition to Syria, saying the clock is ticking for the Islamic republic -- which could face tougher sanctions next year over its nuclear program.
The Jewish festival of lights, Hanukkah, begins at sundown. The holiday commemorates the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 B.C. after it had been profaned by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Greek king of Syria and overlord of Palestine.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Syria's history of water resource management can only benefit by an expanded working relationship with Iran, the Syrian irrigation minister said.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Israel is ready and willing to conduct direct negotiations with Syria without preconditions, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sacked Baghdad's security chief on Wednesday after attacks which killed 127 people, with police charging that the bombers were backed by groups in Syria or Saudi Arabia.
NEW YORK - To walk through the Syrian city of Quneitra is like visiting the scene of a cataclysmic earthquake. Everywhere, there are mountains of rubble, great mounds of cement blocks, twisted sheets of corrugated metal and spaghettis of iron bars.
DAMASCUS, Syria — When the Iraq War began, Fadi Fares Aziz cut up his flute and carried the pieces in a bag of rice, evading soldiers who might mistake his instrument case for a rifle.
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