by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 17, 2017 | Middle East
Beirut, Geneva- UN Special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura sought on Tuesday to achieve a breakthrough in the “negotiations stalemate” by suggesting a new mechanism on legal and constitutional issues, but opposition forces expressed their reservations on...
by Michel Abu Najm | Apr 1, 2017 | Middle East
Geneva, Beirut- The priorities of the Trump administration uncovered by US officials on Thursday have mixed all the cards on the eve of the end of Syria’s fifth round of peace talks held in Geneva. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and US ambassador to the UN both...
by Paula Astih, Michel Abou Najm, Jordan DaKamaseh | Mar 26, 2017 | Middle East
Beirut, Paris, New York – An Arab-Kurdish administration could see the light in Raqqa and its suburbs after their liberation from ISIS, while the international coalition are overseeing the training of a local police force to perform security missions in the city...
by Saeed Abdelrazek | Mar 1, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara- Russia’s deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov threw on Tuesday the ball of the intra-Syrian talks in the camp of U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura after announcing from Geneva that “the fight against terrorism is a priority and should be on the agenda along...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 23, 2017 | Middle East
Turkey-backed Syrian rebels announced on Thursday that they had taken full control of the northern town of al-Bab from ISIS after weeks of deadly fighting. Turkey launched its Syrian operation, dubbed “Operation Euphrates Shield”, in August, in effort to...
