Mahmoud Abbas asked Syria to shut down the offices of Palestinian terrorist groups, the U.S. State Department said. Spokesman Scott McCormack said the refusal of Syrian leader Bashar Assad to heed the Palestinian Authority president was an example of Syrian recalcitrance.
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