Some suggest that as many as 80% of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq's maelstrom passed through Syria.
Much of what is smuggled through Syria into Iraq is equipment manufactured in former Soviet bloc countries, he said.
Lebanese security sources say neighboring Syria is a big part of the problem, turning a blind eye to a smuggling route from Iraq, through Syria, to Tripoli.
There is also talk of rerouting Iraq-bound trade through Syria to circumvent the Kurdish region, and Turkish government officials have threatened to cut off electricity supplies to Iraq.
"It is important that Syria plays a positive role in the region, " he told Syria's al-Watan newspaper, adding that peace in the Middle East "passes through" Syria and France.
Ambassador FAISAL MEKDAD (Syrian Ambassador to the UN): (Through Translator) Syria is the main victim of this crime.
This route works its way down through Turkey and into Syria, with an evocative bazaar at Aleppo and the spectacular city of Damascus.
Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told CNN's "The Situation Room" that the United States will push other approaches to the conflict, including through the Friends of Syria Group.
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The most direct land route would take the pair straight through some of the region's most dangerous areas, including the Iraqi capital Baghdad, into war-torn Syria and straight through the embattled city of Aleppo to the Turkish border and on to Europe.
More recently, he began indirect talks, through Turkish middlemen, with Syria.
The United States is aware of the claim that an American woman was killed and is working through the Czech Republic mission in Syria to obtain more information, a State Department official told CNN on condition of anonymity.
He said they went through 50 checkpoints on the road between Syria's two biggest cities.
Attempts by the UK and France to push through a UN Security Council resolution censuring Syria have faltered and this tells us much about the new realities of diplomacy in a "multi-polar" world.
Through Mr Mubarak, Mr Demirel delivered to Syria's President Hafez Assad a menu of demands so unpalatable that the Arabs assumed Turkey wanted war.
The review, led by former UN director of communications Edward Mortimer, will look at the BBC's coverage beginning with events in Tunisia in December 2010 through to Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria and Yemen.
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"We agreed that a lasting solution to the problems in Syria and Iran can only be found through dialogue, " Singh said.
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Through Turkish mediation, Israel has begun to talk to Syria.
Through its policies toward Israel on the one hand and Iran and Syria on the other, the Obama administration demonstrates that it has already accepted a nuclear Iran.
Syria's government was the first to report the attack through state media, offering photos and video footage of victims being treated in a hospital by doctors wearing blue paper masks.
The effects of these demented policies have been exacerbated in recent years by Turkey's diversion of Syria's main water source, the Euphrates River, through the construction of dams upstream, and by two years of unrelenting drought.
Mr. DUFFER: (Through translator) We came back because there was no work for us in Syria.
Syria could have bought these cluster munitions from Egypt, received them through military cooperation, or acquired them another way.
The papal visit has revived a sense of unity and pride among Syria's 2.4 million Christians, who have retained their faith through centuries in a Muslim-dominated country of 17 million.
Through the 1950s and 1960s, army coups as far afield as Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Iraq all produced regimes that sacrificed freedoms on the altar of progress, stability and Arab unity.
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In the process, the leaders in these councils, who hail from Syria's different religious and ethnic groups, are developing political skills, cultivating local constituencies and learning through trial and error the business of governing.
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