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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Mouallem, third left, arrives for the start of negotiations at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, January 24, 2014. Al-Mouallem will meet UN-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Syria peace talks at risk as government threatens to withdraw

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 24, 2014 | Middle East

Geneva/Beirut/London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Negotiations on the Syrian crisis in Geneva appear to have suffered another setback on Friday as a planned face-to-face meeting between the Syrian government delegation and Western-backed opposition groups scheduled for later...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) talks to Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (2-L) as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (R) walks past prior to the so-called Geneva II peace talks on Syria, in Montreux, Switzerland, 22 January 2014. The talks brought representatives of the al-Assad regime and the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition together under the same roof for the first time since the conflict started some three years ago. (EPA/ARND WIEGMANN / POOL)

Syrian peace talks stuck over Assad’s future

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 22, 2014 | Middle East

Montreux, AP—Peace talks to carve a path out of Syria’s civil war got off to a rocky start Wednesday as a bitter clash over President Bashar Al-Assad’s future threatened to collapse the negotiations even before they had begun. The dispute over Assad cast a...

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A handout photo taken and provided on July 9, 2013 by the opposition Syrian National Coalition Media Office shows Coalition leader Ahmad Al-Jarba.(AFP)

Syria: Opposition remains undecided on Geneva II

by Michel Abu Najm | Jan 9, 2014 | Middle East

Paris, Asharq Awsat—The Istanbul-based Syrian National Coalition announced that it has postponed its decision on whether to attend the Geneva II peace talks until January 17 after 43 members walked out of a meeting in what represents the latest sign of the widening...

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Member National Coalition Of Syria Suheir Atassi, Head of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmad al-Jarba, Secretary General National Coalition of Syria Badr Jamous, Member National Coalition Of Syria Salim Muslit, Leaders of the exiled Syrian National Council (SNC), Muhammet Faruq Tayfur during a Syrian opposition groups meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 9, 2013. (EPA/SEDAT SUNA)

Syrian Coalition to decide on Geneva II and new chief on Monday

by Michel Abu Najm | Jan 5, 2014 | Middle East

Paris and Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) is due to hold a two-day meeting on Sunday and Monday in Istanbul amid increasing international pressure on its leaders to participate in the Geneva II peace conference scheduled to begin on January...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London October 22, 2013. (REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett)

‘Friends of Syria’: No role for Assad in Syria’s future

by Mina Al-Oraibi | Oct 23, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The ‘Friends of Syria’ group of states called on the Syrian government and its opponents to attend a forthcoming peace conference aimed at ending the country’s civil war at a meeting in London on Tuesday. Foreign ministers...