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U.S. Envoy Says "Patience is Running Out" with Syria
(USA Today) Barbara Slavin - Syria is harboring training camps for Iraqi insurgents, U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said Monday. U.S. patience with Syria is running out, he said. The U.S. has ruled out no option, including military force, for dealing with the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Khalilzad said during a State Department briefing. Syria is already under U.S. economic sanctions. Khalilzad said Syria is a bigger threat to Iraq than Iran and more of a problem than Pakistan had been for Afghanistan. He called Syria "the No. 1 offender" in the region to "the success of Iraq."