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Khaddam calls on al-Assad to resign
The former Syrian vice president Abdul Halim Khaddam said that President Bashar al-Assad should resign. This statement by Khaddam comes few days after he had accused the Syrian president of having threatened the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 1/6/2006
Washington Post: Jumblat calls US to do in Syria what it did in Iraq
A syndicated columnist reported in an opinion piece published today in the Beirut Daily Star and partly carried in Arabic by other Beirut daily newspapers that Walid Jumblat told him in a telephone interview, when asked what he wanted from America "You came to Iraq and you can do the same thing in Syria."
Lebanon-Syria-USA, Politics, 1/6/2006
Iraqi Sunni religious leaders condemn targeting Shiites
The chairman of the Higher Council Of The Islamic Revolution In Iraq, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, held the coalition forces and local political sides, he did not identified by name, as being responsible for what he described the "dirty sectarian crimes which targeted the Shiite in particular."
Iraq, Politics, 1/6/2006
Straw meets Lebanon's prime minister, but not the president
The British foreign office secretary Jack straw said following his meeting with his Lebanese peer Fawzi Salloukh that London wants the reality to be disclosed regarding the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri and other acts of assassination, and that Lebanon to enjoy a stable future as a sovereigns state, as he alleged.
Lebanon-UK, Politics, 1/6/2006
Sharaa holds talks with Iranian deputy foreign minister
Syria's Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa on Thursday conferred with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Reza Bagheri on the latest regional and international developments and threats which face Syria and Iran.
Syria-Iran, Politics, 1/6/2006
Rice vows continued pressure on Syria
The US Secretary Of State, Condaleezza Rice, on Thursday renewed her call on Syria to abide by the demands set by the UN investigation committee. She said that the pressure on Syria will not be lessened until the facts about the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri are disclosed and Syria's "full cooperation."
Syria-Lebanon-USA, Politics, 1/6/2006
Syria condemns terrorist escalation in Iraq
Syria roundly condemned Thursday the recent terrorist escalation in Iraq. "Syrian Arab Republic has received, with a great pain, news of yesterday and today terrorist escalation that a large number of innocent people in brotherly Iraq are paying its heavy price " an official source at the Foreign Ministry said.
Syria-Iraq, Politics, 1/6/2006
Bush discusses Iraq strategy with present and former officials
The US President George W. Bush invited a group of individuals to expand the consultation on the US strategy being followed in Iraq.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/6/2006
Worst week of violence since invasion of Iraq
125 Iraqis were killed in a series of explosions, the most violent of which were two suicide attacks in Karbala in the south, and Ramadi in the north, and thereby this week becomes the most violence since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Iraq, Military, 1/6/2006
Sharon to wake up Sunday, brain damage unknown
Hadasa hospital, where the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was subjected to emmergency surgery to deal with a brain stroke, said that his conditions has not changed during the night.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/6/2006
Olmert is Israel's prime minister
With the continued drastic health condition of the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, on which medical estimates said he will not be able to carry out set official job even he survives his current crisis, the charge de affairs of the Israeli government Ehud Olmert continued to preside over the Israeli government after he had chaired
Israel, Politics, 1/6/2006
20 pilgrims killed in hotel collapse in Mecca
The number of pilgrims killed in the collapse of Lou'louat al-Kheir" (the pearl of the good) hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, increased at least 20, while other 59 were reported as injured at a time when scores of rescue men continued their attempts to find survivors from the incident which comes three days before the beginning of traditional al-Haj Islamic rituals.
Saudi Arabia-Regional, Local, 1/6/2006
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The National Iraqi List led by the former prime minister Eyad Allawi held the government of Ibrahim al-Jaafari responsible for the worsening of violence and considered the government as "main reason in weakening national unity because it had practiced sectarian politics, and calls of revenge and avenge," and accused Jaafari's supporters of weakening the security state establishments, politicizing their inclination and strengthening their militias.
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Following his meeting with Hizbullah Secretary General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Thursday, Lebanon's former Premier Najib Mikati said "he got the impression the government crisis will be resolved soon, adding that Lebanese officials should implement the terms of its treaty with Syria," The Daily Star in Lebanon reported.
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Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday phoned Saudi King Abdullah Ibn Abdel Aziz as well as Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on the outcome of Mubarak's consultations with the Saudi and French leaders on Egypt's efforts to solve the current crisis between Lebanon and Syria.
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President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday received a telephone call from King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah Ibn Abdulaziz in which talks dealt with the latest developments in the region and the bilateral relations.
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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday received Coordinator of the External Relations at the General Popular Committee for the External Communication and International Cooperation in Libya, Ahmad Qaddaf al-Dam.
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The US Bush administration will continue working to expand liberty and freedom in the Middle East as part of the US effort to help countries and peoples transform their capabilities to govern themselves, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday saying the challenge of the new Iraqi government will be to make itself as broadly based as possible.
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Head of the Lebanese Democratic Party and Former deputy Talal Arslan has condemned the staments of Syrian former vice president Abdul Halim Khaddam as false, where Khaddam stated that Syrian officials had issued threats to the assassinated Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
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The American army in Iraq said that seven of its soldiers were killed on Thursday by a roadside bomb in Baghdad.
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