Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that the Syrian army’s capture of Aleppo, which has come under renewed bombardment in an effort to seize its rebel-held sector, would be “a very important springboard” to pushing “terrorists” back to Turkey. Rescue workers said that Syria’s military backed by Russian warplanes[…]
OPINION by Khaled Al-Dakheel – Syria’s present day borders are the result of the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement between France and Britain. In the final weeks of 2015, the UN Security Council has been drawing up an agreement that could potentially bring about a new future for Syria and provide a[…]
Saudi King Salman accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday of having aided the rise of the Islamic State group and called for a political settlement with moderate forces to end the war. The solution would be to form “a transitional government made up of moderate opposition forces, ensuring the[…]
The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution endorsing the Syrian peace process, starting with formal negotiations and a ceasefire in early January. The US and Russian initiative, which emerged from talks with a 17-nation group, foresees a rapid ceasefire in the almost five-year-old conflict, perhaps as early[…]
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Abdel Al-Jubeir has issued a fresh call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down through negotiations or else be forcibly removed from power, as Syrian opposition groups held talks in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Jubeir made the statement on Thursday, while Syrian opposition leaders discussed[…]
Divisions have opened up at the Riyadh-based Syria opposition talks, with recriminations emerging over the invitation list, although optimism remains that a final joint opposition stance will be agreed. Hours before the conference was due to resume on Wednesday, one of the key participants criticised the organisers for inviting delegates[…]
A Syrian opposition meeting is due to begin in Saudi Arabia that will discuss ways to overcome their differences before potential talks with the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The talks, due to take place from Tuesday, are seen as the most serious effort yet to unify the opposition groups,[…]
Syrian opposition figures and Gulf commentators dismissed on Wednesday a Russian draft proposal for a process to solve the Syrian crisis, saying Moscow’s aim was to keep President Bashar al-Assad in power and marginalize dissenting voices. A draft document obtained by Reuters on Tuesday showed Moscow would like Damascus and[…]
Major powers meeting in Vienna have failed to reach an agreement on Syria, especially the future role of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but found enough “common ground” to meet for a new round of talks in two weeks, even as the conflict enters a new phase with the deployment of[…]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad had told him he was ready to talk to armed opposition groups if they are genuinely committed to dialogue and to combating Islamic State. Speaking a day after Assad made a surprise visit to Moscow for talks with Putin —[…]
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