U.S. Official Tells Syria to Leave Lebanon
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It is time for Syria to quit Lebanon,  a senior State Department official said after talks with Syrian  President Bashar al-Assad Saturday.
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DAMASCUS -- A senior US diplomat urged Syria's president yesterday to withdraw his country's troops from Lebanon and stop interfering in internal Lebanese affairs. William J. Burns, the US assistant secretary of state for the Near East and the highest ranking US official to visit Damascus in more than a year, also said Syria must take &quot;concrete action&quot; to cooperate ...
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CHTAURA, Lebanon  - Several Syrian military units  withdrew from Lebanon early on Thursday, witnesses said, part  of a larger Syrian redeployment seen as a bid to ease U.S.  pressure over Syria's grip on its neighbor.
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The UN Security Council is again urging Syria to withdraw its remaining troops from neighboring Lebanon. The panel of 15 Tuesday also asked UN Secretary-General
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UNITED NATIONS : The UN Security Council called unanimously for Syria to pull its troops out of neighbouring Lebanon, a demand that the Syrians quickly rejected.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct 19: The UN Security Council on Tuesday urged Syria to withdraw its remaining troops from neighbouring Lebanon and asked Secretary-General Kofi Annan to continue reporting any progress.
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Syria began to redeploy its forces from the outskirts of Beirut yesterday in an apparent attempt to fend off growing international pressure to end its 28-year military control of Lebanon.
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Lebanon&#39;s new government was &quot;made in Damascus&quot; in defiance of a UN resolution calling for an end to Syria&#39;s interference in Lebanese affairs, a senior US official was quoted on Wednesday as saying.
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The United States moved on Thursday   to reduce its diplomatic presence in Syria following this   week's attack on its embassy in Damascus by offering free   flights out of the country to non-essential diplomats and   family members on a voluntary basis.
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Syria and Lebanon rejected any outside role in shaping their relations Sunday, a day after a top State Department official said Damascus should pull its troops from its small neighbor.
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The leader of Lebanon's governing coalition has accused Syria of seeking to drag out the political limbo surrounding the election of a new president.
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The United Nations Security Council has called on Syria to pull its remaining 14,000 troops out of Lebanon. In a unanimously passed declaration, it demanded that Syria respect Lebanon&#39;s &quot;territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence&quot;.
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A US official says Israel launched an air strike on Syria last week apparently to warn it not to re-arm Hezbollah.
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The United States on Tuesday  recalled its ambassador to Syria for urgent consultations to  show its anger at Syrian dominance of Lebanon following the  killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon resigned yesterday in a sign of deepening divisions within Lebanon's fragile government over the decisive role that Syria, its larger and more powerful neighbor, plays in its political life.
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The United States told Syria to stay out of the Lebanese politics after Lebanonâs Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri resigned. âLeave it to the Lebanese to work out the political implications and factors involved
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The Security Council calls for foreign troops to leave Lebanon -  a move aimed at reducing Syrian influence.