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Hauran
Hauran see Hawran , Syria.
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SYRIA - Gas Imports From Egypt.
Newspaper article from: APS Review Downstream Trends; 3/6/2006; 700+ words
; Syria is to import Egyptian natural gas through the Arab Pipeline...north Lebanon was completed in 2005; but an agreement for Syria to supply Lebanon with its own gas from last year was not...1). Cairo and Ankara want to make sure the pipeline from Syria to the Turkish border for the Egyptian gas to reach ...
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Fierce words, tied hands; Syria's role.(Syria, America and the war)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/5/2003; 637 words
; Syria hates the war, but is too weak to play the spoiler THE veteran foreign minister, Farouk Sharaa, does not mince words. Syria, he says, has a national interest in expelling America and...from Iraq. The question he does not answer is: how far will Syria go to pursue that interest? To date, it would seem, ...
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Syria edging closer to Iraq Damascus rejects U.S. charges of smuggling arms
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/1/2003; ; 564 words
; LONDON--Syria came closer to forging a formal alliance...invasion." The Bush administration is concerned Syria is smuggling into Iraq Soviet anti-tank...Bush administration was trying to pressure Syria because of its strident opposition to the...
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SYRIA: CRADLE OF CIVILISATIONS
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; SYRIA'S ARCHAEOLOGICAL RICHES MAKE its claim to be the cradle of...towns in the middle Euphrates show society flourishing in Syria at the time of the earliest great civilisations of Persia...their indelible mark. The ethnic make-up of the population of Syria is as complex as its history. The two basic ...
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Defining Syria's Role in Mideast Peace
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 7/28/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Morning Edition (NPR) 07-28-2006 Defining Syria's Role in Mideast Peace Host: DON GONYEA...DON GONYEA, host: To find out what role Syria may play in any diplomatic solution to...George W. Bush. He was the US ambassador to Syria for the first two years of the Bush administration...
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U.S. outlines litany of charges against Syria; Warning: Bush charges that Damascus has chemical weapons
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 4/14/2003; ; 688 words
; WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush warned Syria on Sunday not to harbor Iraqi leaders and...returning to the White House from Camp David. Syria's foreign ministry spokeswoman, Buthayna...the Iraqi leaders had asked to come to Syria. "As you know Syria's history with the...
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Syria denies U.S. accusations; Sheltering Iraqis?: Nation says ties to America have not soured
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 4/17/2003; ; 587 words
; DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria denied American accusations Wednesday that it is sheltering a high...Mukhabarat, Saddam's intelligence service, apparently had surfaced in Syria. Hijazi is believed to be one of several high-ranking Iraqis who made...
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The way Syria sees it
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 1/23/2002; ; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 Headline: The way Syria sees it Byline: Gareth Smith, Khaleej...on people to join you in this folly. Syria's participation in the coalition was...Much the same could be said today about Syria's support for the American war on terrorism...
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Powell vows to get tough with Syria
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 5/3/2003; ; 498 words
; DAMASCUS, Syria -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell arrived...new economic or diplomatic penalties on Syria for its support of extremists, its alleged...Israeli conflict, the time has come for Syria to respond to the "changed strategic dynamic...
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Syria's Pretexts Gone.(military policy)
Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula; 2/21/2005; 462 words
; One of Syria's pretexts for keeping 14,000 troops and...stability in post-war Lebanon. Although Syria is not the only country that has bloodied...is perhaps the closest and most involved. Syria was always trying to project itself as a...
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Hawran
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
or Hauran [Heb.,=hollow or cavernous land], district, SW Syria. It is a largely treeless region marked by conical volcanic peaks, barren...
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Palestine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...225 km) long and c.30 to c.70 mi (50-115 km) wide. Outside these bounds were such biblical lands as Edom , Gilead , Moab , and Hauran. The British mandate of Palestine (1920-48) included also the Negev, a c.100-mile-long (160-km) desert stretching S to the Gulf...
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