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A delegation from the Council of Elders has met with the leadership of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Damascus. The delegation, headed by the former President of the...
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Senior French sources have told London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is going to stay in power "even if Damascus is completely destroyed". The Arabic daily...
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The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, who is also his president's special envoy to the Middle East, has said that Bashar Al-Assad's regime has lost control of Syria. According to...
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On Wednesday evening the Syrian government hinted it will not cooperate with the United Nations peace envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, unless he severs ties with the Arab League. The Syrian...
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Forces within the Syrian opposition have escalated their stance against the Arab and international envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, over his insistence that Iran should participate in the Geneva...
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Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad has issued a formal decree sacking Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jameel from his position. Jameel is alleged to have carried out meetings "without coordinating with...
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The Syrian opposition suggested on Monday postponing the Geneva II conference until February, when they are expected to be more prepared, media sources reported. A delegation of the Syrian...
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UN and Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi expressed on Monday his support to the establishment of a new Syrian republic, where Syrian people would "decide its nature."...
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The conflict in Syria started two and a half years ago. It has claimed more than 100,000 lives and displaced more than 2.3 million people. The United Nations has...
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A United Nations source has said that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is not yet ready to announce a date for the Geneva II conference on Syria. Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky...
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Arab and Western officials have ruled out that the Geneva II Conference on Syria would take place on schedule because of clear differences between Washington and Moscow. Washington and...
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The United States and Russia failed to agree a date for the Syria peace conference. They disagreed over the role that Iran might play in talks to end the...
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The Geneva II conference on Syria is impossible to convene, according to the opposition's representative in Paris, Monther Makhous. Makhous noted that while international parties are seeking to hold...
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When US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and his Russian counterpart and host Sergei Lavrov, make an announcement on having reached an agreement to hold an international conference on...
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The Syrian political opposition has various viewpoints on the Geneva II conference. Some are eager to participate and see it as a turning point that will place the Syrian...
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Since the election of Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani last year, there has been a significant thaw in relations with the country's old adversary, the US. This diplomatic shift...