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PARIS (AFP) - Lebanon and Syria said on Saturday that they had agreed to establish diplomatic relations, opening embassies in each others’ capitals for the first time since their independence from colonial rule.

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from Danger Room by Noah Shachtman
More than 100 fighter jets. A fleet of rescue copters. Refueling tankers flying more than 900 miles, the distance from Israel to Iran’s atomic plant at Natanz.
“Israel carried out a major military exercise earlier this month that American officials say appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential [...]

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The Associated Press
Friday, June 6, 2008
MOSCOW: Russia’s parliament on Friday ratified an agreement to write off nearly three-quarters of Syria’s roughly US$14 billion (?9 billion) debt from the Soviet era.
The State Duma, the lower house, registered its approval of the 2005 deal and a 2007 supplement in a 401-40 vote.
According to the law passed by [...]

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Published: June 4, 2008 at 6:00 PM
WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) — As the American Israel Public Affairs Committee met in Washington, U.S. President George Bush Wednesday suspended plans to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.

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Tue May 27, 6:54 PM
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday dismissed Israeli demands that Syria abandon an alliance with Iran as a requirement for a peace deal.

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Sun May 25, 2008 1:47pm EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s defense minister hailed his country’s “strategic ties” with Syria on Sunday, just days after Israel called on Damascus to distance itself from Tehran, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported.

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Vote Marks Symbolic End Of Government’s Crisis
By Anthony Shadid and Alia Ibrahim
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, May 26, 2008; A12
BEIRUT, May 25 — Lebanon’s parliament elected the army commander, Gen. Michel Suleiman, as president Sunday, filling a post vacant for six months and bringing a symbolic if tenuous end to the country’s worst crisis since the [...]

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By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer
Fri May 9, 5:37 PM ET
The Bush administration accused Iran and Syria on Friday of fueling ongoing violence in Lebanon by inciting members of the radical Shiite Hezbollah movement to take up arms against the country’s western-backed government.

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Hezbollah says Lebanese government labeling group’s telecom network illegal is war declaration
HUSSEIN DAKROUB
AP News
May 08, 2008 10:30 EST
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday that the Lebanese government had declared war on his Shiite militant group by declaring its private telecommunications network an illegal threat to state security.

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Americans Insist No Deal Made on Settlement Growth
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 24, 2008; A14
A letter that President Bush personally delivered to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon four years ago has emerged as a significant obstacle to the president’s efforts to forge a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians during his last [...]