In a diplomatic turning point for the Bush administration, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Thursday with Syria's foreign minister and expressed U.S. concerns about the country's porous border with Iraq.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Syria to help improve security in Iraq on Thursday during the highest-level talks in three years with a government Washington accuses of sponsoring terrorism.
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she raised the issue of foreign fighters entering Iraq from Syria in talks with Syria's foreign minister Thursday.
A look at recent diplomatic contacts between the U.S. and Syria. While Syria is on the U.S. State Department list of state supporters of terrorism, the two countries have diplomatic relations and the U.S. maintains an embassy in Damascus.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Syria at a rare high-level, face-to-face meeting on Thursday to take action to stop foreign fighters from entering Iraq.
Syria appears to have taken measures to stem the flow of foreign extremist fighters crossing its border into Iraq, the US military's chief spokesman in Baghdad said on Thursday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Syria's foreign minister in the first high-level talks between the countries in years, officials said Thursday, and the chief American military spokesman in Iraq said Syria had moved to reduce "the flow of foreign fighters" across its border.
FACE-TO-FACE: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's sitdown with Syria's foreign minister marked the first high-level talks between the two nations since early 2005.
DAMASCUS, Syria -- No Syrian will participate in an international trial of suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a senior foreign ministry official said yesterday. He also warned that Lebanon is on the brink of civil war.
May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met privately for 30 minutes with Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, opening talks with a Middle East adversary that the Bush administration had long rejected.