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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria accused the United States on Monday of committing an “outrageous crime” in killing eight civilians during a helicopter attack on a Syrian farm near the border with Iraq.
Syria has said four U.S. helicopters assaulted the al-Sukkari farm in the Bou Kamal area in eastern Syria on Sunday and that U.S. soldiers [...]

At least 17 people have been killed and at least 14 injured in a car bomb attack in the Syrian capital Damascus, Syrian television reports.
The car bomb, which Syrian public television said contained about 200kg of explosives, detonated in a southern suburb of the capital at about 8am [0500 GMT] on Saturday.
All of the victims [...]

The presidents of Lebanon and Syria have agreed to establish full diplomatic relations, a Syrian official has said.
Buthaina Shaaban, an adviser to Bashar Assad, the Syrian president, said in a statement that the decision was taken on Wednesday during a meeting in Damascus.
Michel Sleiman, the Lebanese president, is on a two-day visit to Syria, the [...]

Syria and Lebanon have agreed to open embassies in each other’s capital.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, made the announcement on Saturday as he hosted Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, and Michel Sleiman, his Lebanese counterpart.
Al-Assad has also asked France and the US to assist in direct peace talks between his country and Israel.
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Amr Moussa, the Arab League chief, wants foreign ministers of the group to re-evaluate the Arab-Israeli peace talks.
Moussa said this at Saturday’s opening of the Arab summit in Damascus, where Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s president, asked how long Arab nations can keep offering Israel a land-for-peace proposal.
The two-day meeting started amid a Lebanese boycott and the [...]

The US president has ordered expanded sanctions against Syrian government officials and their associates.
The new sanctions target officials the US says are engaged in “public corruption” or are believed to have been responsible for actions that “undermine efforts to stabilise Iraq”, the White House said on Wednesday.
George Bush’s order, issued on Wednesday, did not specify [...]

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Imad Moughniyah, on the United States’ most wanted list for attacks on Israeli and Western targets, was killed by a bomb in Damascus, the Lebanese group said on Wednesday.
Hezbollah swiftly accused Israel of assassinating Moughniyah, who was head of the Hezbollah security network during Lebanon’s 1975-90 civil war. In Gaza, [...]