The Syrian role - securing a belt of territory just inside Kuwait - was modest.

We would like to think that this could lead to a more constructive Syrian role on other issues.

Moderates see some merit in the Syrian military role.

But the Syrian role took a serpentine course.

Any finding of a probable Syrian role would likely bring the full force of international pressure on Syria to pull its forces out of Lebanon.

And that agenda was to carry Syrian role into neighboring nations.

Syrian television reports monitored in Israel denied any Syrian role in the attacks.

The system would give more power to the country's Muslim majority and acknowledge a Syrian role in its affairs.

A murderous bout of score-settling initially discredited the Syrian role.

He had called for all factions in Lebanon to work together to reunify the country and urged acceptance of a Syrian role in the country's future.