Syria's President Bashar Assad has met with a leading Lebanese Christian leader who nearly two decades ago fought a "war of liberation"against Syrian troops in Lebanon. Michel Aoun is expected to meet senior Syrian officials and leaders of the country's...
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A Syrian official told Qatar's al-Watan newspaper on Wednesday that US president-elect Barack Obama's decision to name Senator Hilary Clinton his future secretary of state indicated that peace in the Middle East is, indeed, a top priority for him. ...
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A US helicopter raid into Syria killed a key figure involved in the smuggling of foreign fighters into Iraq, unnamed US officials have said. Officials called the raid, which they said killed Iraqi Abu Ghadiyah, a "success". The White House...
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DAMASCUS, Syria – U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as "serious aggression." A U.S. military official said...
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SUKKARIYEH, Syria – Families in this Iraqi border village prepared to hold funerals Monday for eight people they say were killed when the U.S. military launched a rare attack in Syrian territory. Clergy washed the bodies as angry residents chanted,...
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The Iraqi Parliament Tuesday expressed concern over a U.S. military raid in neighboring Syria targeting the head of al-Qaida operations there. Four U.S. military helicopters carrying combat troops entered Syrian territory Sunday in a raid targeting the alleged leader of...
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The deployment along Syria's side of Lebanon's eastern border follows the stationing of hundreds of Syrian troops on Lebanon's borders in the north – a region where Damascus has warned of a threat from Islamist radicals. Lebanese army chief...
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Lebanese Forces MP Antoine Zahra said that Lebanon could not tolerate the victory of one faction over the other. He said that confrontation was ongoing since Hezbollah did not change its strategy but retreated after its âArab and Islamic scandalâ...
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Some 3,000 Iraqis have demonstrated in Damascus to protest a security pact approved by Iraq's parliament last week that lets the Americans stay in Iraq for three more years. The demonstrators gathered at a square Tuesday in Sayeda Zeinab, which...
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IsraelNN.com) Syrian officials announced Thursday that they believe terrorist group Fatah al-Islam was behind a bombing in Damascus in September. The bombing killed 17 people, among them a senior military official. The Fatah al-Islam group has gained power in “refugee...
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