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  • President Obama meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    First U.S. ambassador in 5 years arrives in Syria

    The first American ambassador to Syria since 2005 arrived in Damascus on Sunday at a time of regional turmoil and with Syrian-U.S. relations still mired in mutual distrust.


  • All quiet on the Mideast front?

    All is quiet on the Middle Eastern front — for the time being. A little more than a year after the war between Israel and the Lebanese Shi'ite militia Hezbollah ended almost as abruptly as it had started, there are rumblings of possibly renewed violence in the Middle East.


  • All quiet on the Mideast front?

    All is quiet on the Middle Eastern front — for the time being. A little more than a year after the war between Israel and the Lebanese Shi'ite militia Hezbollah ended almost as abruptly as it had started, there are rumblings of possibly renewed violence in the Middle East.


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