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Syria stories: 112 news summaries

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 Israel Target in Syria 
 Likely Nuclear Site: UN 

Uranium, site features could be remnants of reactor

Nov 19, 08 3:42 PM CST
(Newser) - The Syrian facility Israel bombed last year looks a lot like a nuclear reactor, UN inspectors said today, though they stopped short of calling it one. The independent investigation found manipulated uranium and features like large cooling pumps that are hallmarks of a nuclear site, the Washington Post reports. Syria... More »

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Iran • Israel • United Nations • Syria • IAEA • nuclear reactor

DNA Study: Ancient Phoenicians Still With Us 

Phoenician blood in North Africa, MidEast

Oct 31, 08 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Phoenicians may have disappeared as a distinct society a few thousand years ago, but it turns out their imprint remains very much alive today. Genetic researchers have discovered the DNA of the seafaring civilization in the blood of men—as many as 1 in 17— who live today in... More »

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Lebanon • Syria • Morocco • Tunisia • DNA • Cyprus • Malta • National Geographic Society • Phoenicians • Genographic Project • Y chromosomes

US: Attack Was 'Warning'
to Jihadist-Friendly Syria

Damascus closes American school, cultural center

Oct 28, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US says its attack Sunday on a Syrian village was a warning to Damascus to take more action against Iraq-bound militants. “We are left with no choice but to take matters into our own hands,” an official tells the Times of London. Washington recently praised Syria for... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • terrorism • Syria • diplomacy • sovereignty • attack

US Says Raid
in Syria Killed
Iraqi Militant

Administration defends cross-border operation as self-defense

Oct 28, 08 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Special forces carried out a secret raid in Syrian territory Sunday to kill an Iraqi militant, the US acknowledged yesterday. About two dozen American commandos swooped into a village on the Iraq-Syria border and fought a brief gun battle. While Syria condemned the raid as "terrorist aggression," top... More »

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Iraq • Syria • airstrike • border crossing • Iraq war • al-Qaeda in Iraq

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 US Strike 'Serious 
 Aggression': Syria 

US yet to respond to claim

Oct 26, 08 4:36 PM CDT
(AP) - US military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack today on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as "serious aggression." A US military official said the raid by special forces targeted the foreign fighter network that... More »

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Iraq • Syria • US military • border crossing

 Syria Formalizes Lebanon Ties 

Damascus hopes symbolic gesture eases international pressure

Oct 14, 08 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Syria today established formal diplomatic relations with Lebanon for the first time since the nations won independence in the 1940s, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Bashir al-Assad’s regime sent its first-ever ambassador to Iraq yesterday, moves one expert says show Syria “wants to play ball with the world.... More »

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Iraq • Lebanon • Syria • diplomacy • embassy • Arab Israeli conflict • Bashir al-Assad

 Syria Car Bomb Kills 17 

14 wounded in blast near Damascus airport, temple

Sep 27, 08 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - A car bomb on the road to Syria’s main airport killed at least 17 passers-by and injured 14 others, the Daily Telegraph reports. The car, at an intersection in the country’s capital, Damascus, had held 440 lbs of explosives; the target of the bomb, which exploded near a... More »

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Syria • car bomb • explosion • Damascus • temple

Russian Warships Head to Venezuela for 'Training'

Chavez says coordinated exercise is 'warning' to US

Sep 22, 08 11:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russian warships left this morning for coordinated training exercises with the Venezuelan navy, the AFP reports. The group, consisting of a nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser, anti-submarine ship, and supporting craft, were seen firing artillery on the open ocean in tests. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said the deployment was a “warning”... More »

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Russia • Syria • Venezuela • Vladimir Putin • Cold War • navy • military exercises

Tit for Tat? Russia Could Station Missiles in Syria

Moscow could regain Mediterranean naval base—and key Cold War relationship

Aug 20, 08 5:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Syria could host batteries of Russian missiles in return for Russian military technology and the reopening of a Soviet-era naval base on its Mediterranean coast, the Times of London reports. President Bashar al-Assad flew to Moscow today to discuss a deal, which may be Russia’s response to the US-Poland... More »

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Russia • Syria • missile defense system • Cold War • navy • Bashar al-Assad

Iran Refuses to Cede Nuclear Rights

President rejects deadline for halting uranium enrichment

Aug 3, 08 12:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected an informal deadline from the UN Security Council to halt its uranium enrichment program, the AP reports. In talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Ahmadinejad refused to cede "a single iota of its nuclear rights" despite threats of more sanctions. Tehran maintains its nuclear program is... More »

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Iran • United Nations • Syria • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Bashar al Assad • nuclear weapons • uranium enrichment • international sanctions • UN Security Council

OPINION

 Barack: Don't
 Tell Europe What
 It Wants to Hear 

Careful change is what Europe wants to believe in

Jul 21, 08 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The vast majority of Europeans are hoping Barack Obama will be elected president, according to polls that give him as much as 86% support among voters in France, Britain, and Germany. The overwhelming support reflects a hope for a new era of unity with the US, writes Roger Cohen in... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • Israel • Syria • Germany • Europe • Nicolas Sarkozy • Britain • European allies • Jean-David Levitte • Bashar al-Assad • Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg • Roger Cohen

 New Mediterranean Union
 Eyes Mideast Peace 

'Gesture of peace' launches new 43-nation group

Jul 14, 08 7:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The inaugural meeting yesterday of the Union of the Mediterranean, which brought together the 27 EU countries and their neighbors to the south, kicked off discussions about a number of mutual projects. But French President Nicolas Sarkozy used it as an opportunity to flex some diplomatic muscle by bringing Syrian... More »

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Israel • Lebanon • Syria • Ehud Olmert • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Hosni Mubarak • Egypt • Arab Israeli conflict • Union for the Mediterranean • Mahmud Abbas • Bashir al-Assad

Hezbollah Included in Lebanon Unity Government

Militant group gets one cabinet slot among 16 for opposition in move to calm strife

Jul 11, 08 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lebanon’s political factions finally formed a unity government today, Reuters reports, with militant group Hezbollah included in the coalition formed after weeks of wrangling. With Hezbollah and its allies effectively holding veto power, it appears Syria—long allied with the militants—will regain some of the dominance it long... More »

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Lebanon • Syria • Hezbollah • Fouad Siniora • power sharing deal

 Rendition Victim
 Loses US
 Torture Appeal 

Technicality KOs case at center of recent movie

Jul 1, 08 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Canadian software engineer has lost an appeal against the US for his torture in Syria on a technicality, Reuters reports. Syrian-born Maher Arar, whose story inspired the Hollywood movie Rendition, was forced off a flight in New York in 2002 and shipped to Syria, where he says he was... More »

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rendition • torture • Syria • Canada • Condoleezza Rice • Maher Arar

OPINION

Refugees: Iraq's Unspoken Crisis

US must rebuild shattered lives now or face decades of disorder: Kristof

Jun 26, 08 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof travels to Jordan to report on one of the unintended consequences of the Iraq war: a regional refugee crisis. About 2 million Iraqis, mostly Sunnis, have fled since the war, living mostly in Jordan and Syria in deplorable conditions. "They are the... More »

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Iraq • Jordan • Middle East • Syria • Sunnis • Iraqi refugees • Iraq war

Opinion

Mideast Peace Initiatives
Dodge US Disapproval

America on the bench as region works itself out

Jun 3, 08 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Middle East nations are moving to resolve their conflicts without, and often in defiance of, Washington, write Hussein Agha and Robert Malley in the New York Times. Israel is in peace talks with both Hamas and Syria, and Lebanon has reached political reconciliation after a near civil war. All... More »

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Bush administration • Israel • Lebanon • Syria • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • isolationism • Arab Israeli conflict

Analysis

Distracted US Finds Mideast Clout Waning

With clock ticking on Bush administration, hard-line tactics fail

May 26, 08 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush Administration's problems are hardly confined to abysmal domestic approval ratings, writes veteran Reuters journalist Jonathan Wright. Middle Eastern leaders are paying less and less attention to the lame-duck president, who spoke of the need to isolate Hamas during a visit to Egypt last week—even as his host... More »

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Bush administration • Israel • Middle East • Syria • US foreign policy • Egypt • George W. Bush

Israel Confirms Peace Talks
With Syria

Olmert ready to give
up Golan; Israelis
may disapprove

May 21, 08 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel and Syria have been holding secret peace talks, with Turkey as the middleman, the two sides announced today, acknowledging for the first time the long-rumored negotiations. Syria is technically at war with Israel over the Golan Heights, which the Israelis seized in 1967. Israel is ready to give the... More »

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Iran • Israel • Turkey • Syria • Ehud Olmert • Hezbollah • Golan Heights • peace talks

OPINION

Iran Outsmarting US in New Cold War in Mideast

America is too dumb, weak right now to counter, Friedman says

May 14, 08 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The new cold war is being waged between America and Iran, and Iran is winning hands down, Thomas L Friedman writes in the New York Times. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nation has built up influence from Iraq to Lebanon, with power over Iraq's prime minister, Hezbollah, Hamas, and other militias—and a... More »

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Iran • Israel • Middle East • Syria • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Hamas • Hezbollah • America • Cold War • George W. Bush • Sunni allies

 Hezbollah Pulling
 Gunmen From Beirut 

Political group wins concessions from neutral Lebanese army

May 10, 08 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hezbollah began withdrawing gunmen today from Beirut after winning concessions from the Lebanese army to overturn the government measures that sparked days of fierce fighting. The army, a neutral player in the ongoing struggle between the insurgent political group and the Western-backed government, said it would reinstate Beirut airport’s... More »

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Lebanon • Syria • Hezbollah • Fouad Siniora • Beirut • Saad al-Hariri

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