Syrian President Bashar Assad pledged Thursday to cooperate with a U.N. investigation into the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri but said he would not place his country's national interests at risk in doing so.
Syria must cooperate "unconditionally" with a United Nations investigation into the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri or face "further action," a U.N. Security Council resolution said Monday.
A meeting of the U.N. Security Council over whether to impose sanctions on officials implicated in a recent investigation into the death of former Rafik Hariri is adding to mounting pressure on Bashar Assad to cooperate with investigators.
The United States, France and Britain have drafted a resolution that could impose sanctions on Syria unless it more fully cooperates with an ongoing United Nations investigation into the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
A report issued Thursday by the United Nations implicates top Syrian officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and says Lebanese officials helped organize it.
Syria's ruling Baath Party, weakened by a struggling economy and the country's military withdrawal from Lebanon, voted for limited legal and political reforms at the end of a national conference Thursday.
Battered by its withdrawal from Lebanon under international pressure and a continued weak economy at home, Syria may usher in a new period of transition when the Baath Party, which has ruled the country for more than 30 years, meets…
A series of suicide bombers killed at least 60 people and wounded 100 in several Iraqi cities Wednesday as U.S. forces continued an offensive aimed at uprooting insurgents near the Syrian border.
About 500,000 pro-Syrian demonstrators gathered in the Lebanese capital of Beirut Tuesday, chanting anti-American slogans in response to a call from the militant Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group to counter anti-Syrian rallies held earlier this week.
Syria will immediately begin a phased troop pullback in Lebanon, the presidents of both countries announced Monday in a joint statement.
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