Syria troops ‘to stay until April’
yrian troops will not withdraw completely from Lebanon until at least after an April 7 meeting between senior Syrian and Lebanese military officers to discuss their redeployment, Lebanon’s foreign minister said Sunday. Mahmoud Hammoud also said the joint military commission would set the “duration, time and location in these matters.” He made the remarks after meeting with U.N. envoy Terje Roed-Larsen in Beirut, a day after Roed-Larsen had visited Syrian President Bashar Assad. Full Story