A senior Israeli official says Syria needs to take concrete actions to reduce tensions with Israel if peace talks are to resume. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem the Israeli comments follow those by U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, who said Wednesday in Damascus that Syria's president is ready to negotiate with Israel.
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President Bush says the opposition leader in the House of Representatives is sending the wrong signals to America's friends and foes by visiting Syria for talks with President Bashar Assad. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story.
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Despite criticism from U.S. President George W. Bush, the leading Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus today.
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The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has arrived in Syria for a two-day visit that the White House has criticized as undermining U.S. policy. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem met Pelosi at Damascus airport. She is to meet President Bashar Assad and other Syrian officials on Wednesday.
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The Bush administration Friday criticized plans by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit Syria. Pelosi and a delegation of other House Democrats are expected to go to Damascus early next week as part of a broader Middle East trip.
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A Russian arms deal with Syria has drawn a sharp protest from Israel. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel is warning that the sale would strengthen radical elements in the Middle East and destabilize the region.
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Iraq has confirmed that the United States, Iran and Syria will participate in a conference on the country's security.
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Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said Wednesday he will maintain contacts with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but that achieving peace with the Palestinians will be difficult because a majority of Palestinians support Hamas. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem the Israeli leader also had tough words for Iran and Syria.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Iran today, his country's closest regional ally.
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper says his government will pay nearly $9 million to a Syrian-born citizen detained and deported by the United States after he was wrongly identified as a suspected terrorist.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani today said Syria was taking action to prevent foreign fighters from crossing the border into Iraq.
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New details in the tragic end of one of the world's earliest cities as well as clues about how urban life may have begun there were revealed in a recent excavation in northeastern Syria that was conducted by the University of Chicago and the Syrian Department of Antiquities.
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