Word: syrian
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...weeks ago. At first they appealed the deportation orders, but they dropped their cases after their lawyers were not permitted to see evidence against them. The quartet was whisked out of the country within 24 hours, with no notification to their families, and was last reported to be in Syrian hands in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The other five, including three fundamentalist leaders, are continuing to appeal...
...Syrian initiative could mark a breakthrough in attempts to end the seven-year Iran-Iraq war, which has threatened to engulf other nations in the strategic, oil-rich region...
...Syrian initiative, launched last month at the urging of Saudi Arabia, was aimed at opening up a dialogue between Tehran and the Arab nations of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council to find ways to end the conflict...
That action, and the Syrian initiative, led Iran to halt its retaliatory raids on neutral shipping, sources said. Both sides have attacked more than 400 vessels in the waterway since...
...summit proceedings. The two men, who are rivals for leadership of the region's socialist Baath movement, refused to shake hands, exchange words or even look at each other. But after hours of delicate mediation by other Arab leaders, the atmosphere thawed. At one point, when the Syrian and Iraqi Foreign Ministers were deadlocked over a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in the gulf war, Jordanian Foreign Minister Taher Masri went to Assad's suite to discuss the problem. Clad in his pajamas, Assad made a key concession -- he agreed to accept the resolution without changes demanded...