| February 10, 2008 | -
Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah was killed by a car bomb in Syria.
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Los Angeles Times
Source 3:
Washington Post
Source 4:
New York Times
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| September 15, 2007 | - A U.S. State Department official speculated that North Korea was helping Syria develop nuclear weapons.
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NYT
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| August 23, 2007 | - Returning from a three-day trip to Iraq and Jordan, Senate Chairman of the Armed Services Carl Levin (D., Mich.) declared the Iraqi government “non-functional” and recommended that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his cabinet be replaced. “We care for our people and our constitution,” said Maliki, who was visiting Syria, “and can find friends elsewhere.”
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Washington Post
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| May 20, 2007 | - Troops in northern Lebanon were fighting against Fatah Islam, a splinter group from a Syrian-backed
Palestinian splinter group.
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BBC News
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| February 3, 2007 | -
Iraqi refugees were flooding Syria and Jordan, where they now account for 5 and 12 percent of those countries' total populations.
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AP via Yahoo!NEWS
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| January 12, 2007 | -
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D., Del.) asserted that the authority Congress granted the Bush Administration to invade Iraq did not extend to invading Iran or Syria. “I just want to set that marker,” he said.
| Source:
Slate
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| November 20, 2006 | -
Syria's foreign minister visited Iraq to discuss renewing diplomatic relations between the two nations.
| Source:
Al Jazeera
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| October 6, 2006 | - Swiss researchers in Syria discovered the remains of an extinct species of giant camel.
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iol.co.za
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| August 23, 2006 | -
Syrian President Bashar Assad called the deployment of international troops along the Syria-Lebanon border a “hostile” act.
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Los Angeles Times
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| August 19, 2006 | -
Syrian President Bashar Assad called those who doubted Hezbollah “half men,” and an Arab newspaper called Assad a rose that failed to bloom.
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Jerusalem Post
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| July 24, 2006 | -
Israel insisted it had no immediate plans for a large-scale ground invasion of Lebanon, although it seized two Lebanese towns, called up 10,000 troops to the border, and called thousands of reservists to active duty. Almost 400 people (362 Lebanese, 37 Israelis) have been killed so far in the conflict. European governments debated the proportionality of these deaths, and Syrian president Bashar Assad told the international community to stop procrastinating and broker a ceasefire.
| Source:
NY Times and The Australian
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| July 17, 2006 | - “What they need to do,” said President George W. Bush as he buttered a piece of bread at the G-8 summit, “is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over.”
| Source 1:
UPI
Source 2:
The Washington Post
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| July 15, 2006 | -
Israel said it had no plans to attack Syria.
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Ha'aretz
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| February 5, 2006 | - Riots erupted over newspaper cartoons, printed first in Denmark and subsequently throughout Europe, that caricatured the prophet Muhammad. Demonstrators rallied in Syria, where they attacked the Danish and Norwegian embassies, and in Lebanon, where they set the Danish embassy on fire. "They should have respected our religion," said a Lebanese protester. Iran recalled its ambassador from Denmark, and protesters outside the United Nations in New York City chanted, "shame, shame."
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Newsday
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| February 4, 2006 | - The IAEA voted to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council because of Iran's nuclear program; Venezuela, Cuba, and Syria voted against the measure. Prior to the vote, Egypt proposed to make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, but that proposal was rejected by the United States because it would interfere with Israel's weapons program.
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BBC News
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| November 5, 2005 | -
U.S. and Iraqi forces launched Operation Al Hajip Elfulathi (Steel Curtain) in Husaybah, a town on Iraq's Syrian border that serves as a transit point and staging area for militants. The offensive began on the third day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of Ramadan. “Instead of having my family for a picnic in an amusement park,” said a refugee named Omar Obaidi, “I am taking them out of the town, walking and expecting death every moment.” A statement promising retaliation for the offensive, purported to be from Al Qaeda, was posted on a local mosque. In Baquba the spokesman for the Iraqi National Dialogue Council was shot five times.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| October 31, 2005 | -
U.S. aircraft dropped explosives on a house in Iraq near the Syrian border, hoping to kill an Al Qaeda leader. An Iraqi doctor estimated 40 civilians were killed and 20 wounded in the precision bombing. "There are no insurgents in this area," said a tribal leader.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 11, 2005 | - In Iraq, a suicide bombing killed twenty-one people, eight members of the same Shiite family were shot and killed, and suicide car bombs killed seven people near the Syrian border.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| June 4, 2005 | - In Beirut, a bomb killed Samir Kassir, a Lebanese journalist who opposed the Syrian occupation. Hundreds of people attended his funeral.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 1, 2005 | -
Syria announced that it would renew diplomatic relations with Iraq.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 4, 2005 | -
Syria vowed to be out of Lebanon by the end of April.
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Arab News
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| March 14, 2005 | - Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese came out to rally against Syria.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 11, 2005 | - Two hundred rallied against Syria in Minneapolis.
| Source:
Star Tribune
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| March 9, 2005 | - In Beirut, at least five hundred thousand rallied to show their support for Syria.
| Source:
The Age
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| March 7, 2005 | -
Syria agreed to move its troops into eastern Lebanon, but the U.S. State Department warned that this is not enough.
| Source:
Guardian
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| March 4, 2005 | - President George W. Bush demanded that Syria pull out of Lebanon.
| Source:
New York Post
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| February 28, 2005 | - A suicide bomber killed five in Tel Aviv. Israel blamed Syria, which hosts Islamic Jihad, for the attack. Syria handed over Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti, Saddam Hussein's half-brother, to Iraqi authorities.
| Source:
Economist
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| February 28, 2005 | - The pro-Syrian government of Lebanon dissolved itself.
| Source:
ABC News
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| February 21, 2005 | - Speaking in Brussels, Bush called on Syria to end its occupation of Lebanon; he also said it was time for Europe and the United States to work together.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| February 17, 2005 | -
Syria denied any role in the assassination of Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon and critic of the Syrian occupation, who was killed in a Beirut bombing. The United States withdrew its ambassador to Syria, and 100,000 mourners turned out for Hariri's funeral.
| Source:
CNN
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| February 17, 2005 | -
Syria and Iran announced that they would form a “common front” to face mutual threats, but Syria's ambassador to the U.S. said that this had nothing to do with the United States.
| Source:
Daily Times
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| January 17, 2005 | - In Mosul, a Syrian archbishop was kidnapped.
| Source:
New York Timesimes
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| September 27, 2004 | -
Israel used a car bomb to assassinate a Hamas official in Syria.
| Source:
Christian Science Monitor
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| April 28, 2004 | - Terrorists in Syria fought with police and blew up a bomb outside a former United Nations office in Damascus.
| Source:
Scotsman
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| March 24, 2004 | - Political violence continued in Kosovo, Gaza, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Syria; there was unrest in Haiti, where armed gangs continued to terrorize the people; in Congo, where the government put down a coup attempt; and in France, where firefighters battled police during a strike over retirement benefits. The firefighters threw garbage cans, firecrackers, and smoke bombs; the police fired tear gas.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 4, 2001 | - American officials declared that they were “on a roll” and that the next targets in the crusade against terrorism were Saddam Hussein, Hamas, and the Hezbollah network in Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.
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| November 20, 2001 | - Archaeologists in Syria found a 3,800-year-old recipe for beer.
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