by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 18, 2016 | Middle East
Humanitarian convoys have not reached this month besieged areas of Syria with civilians in dire need of food and medicine, U.N. peace envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. “Not one single convoy in one month has reached any of the humanitarian...
by Mirza Al-Khuwaylidi | May 23, 2016 | Middle East
The UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh confirmed in an exclusive statement to Asharq Al-Awsat that the Yemeni peace negotiations in Kuwait which resume today are proceeding at a good pace and are making significant progress. He also indicated that Gulf support is...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 23, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
Despite a nearly month-old US-Russia engineered ceasefire agreement, aid deliveries to besieged areas of Syria remain hard to make, said a Red Cross spokesman on Wednesday, calling for more regular access to those in need of help. Since the start of the cessation of...
