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There was renewed hope earlier this month when Russia and the United States proposed that another peace conference on Syria be held in Geneva in mid-June.
The Syrian president has told a Lebanese TV station that Damascus received the first shipment of Russian air defense missiles, according to remarks released on Thursday.
There was renewed hope earlier this month when Russia and the United States proposed that another peace conference on Syria be held in Geneva in mid-June.
Syrian Foreign Minister said Wednesday that his government has no pre-conditions for holding peace talks, however, excluding those who have Syrians ' blood smeared over their hands.
A US drone strike killed seven people in Pakistan's volatile North Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, the first drone attack since a May 11 election.
More than 70 people were killed in a wave of bombings in markets in Shi'ite neighbourhoods across Baghdad on Monday in worsening sectarian violence in Iraq.
Two foreign tourists were kidnapped in Yemen's central province of Taiz on Monday, an interior ministry official told Xinhua.
At least 18 people were killed and 62 others wounded in six car bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Monday, an interior ministry source said.
Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Sunday that it is possible for Israelis and Palestinians to overcome differences and skepticism and move ahead to attain peace.
Two rockets hit a Hezbollah-controlled district in the southern part of Lebanon's capital on Sunday, residents said, wounding several people.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced Saturday that he intends to form a new government within two to three weeks, according to local media.
The recent report of the UN nuclear watchdog about Iranian nuclear program is an indicative of the country's progress and achievements.
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