Syria softens stance on Iraq to end honeymoon with US

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Damascus opposes military action against Baghdad. Syria suspects America plans to make the Middle East a US security zone. Newspapers are to end verbal attacks on President Saddam Hussein. Oil ministry officials are investigating the pipeline system linking Iraq with the Mediterranean. The Syrians feel America takes President Assad for granted. Arab-Israeli negotiations in Moscow were not originally planned to be multilateral talks. Syria refused to attend. America's interception of a ship carrying missiles from North Korea was outside international law. The ships were not bringing missiles to Syria.

United States, United States foreign relations, Iraq, Iraqi foreign relations

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Syria and Israel warn of brutal war in Lebanon

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A report in an Israeli newspaper, 'Haaretz', about undercover talks between a Syrian and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime, true or not, has stirred up fears about the peace process failing. There is talk of Israel offering to withdraw from the Lebanon, whose government Syria controls, if Syria removes 22,000 soldiers from the area. As Syria will never agree to this, she will be blamed for the situation, and the conflict will be exacerbated.

Israel, Reports, Newspapers, Israeli foreign relations

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