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Chief opposition negotiator Mohammad Alloush (right) attends the Astana talks (AFP)

Astana Talks Conclude with Promises, Disappointments

by Caroline Akoum and Michel Abou Najem | Feb 17, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut, Paris – Participants in the second round of Astana talks on Syria failed to agree over sustaining ceasefire in the war-torn country, while the opposition factions received Russian pledges to stop shelling areas controlled by the opposition. Sources close to...

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A woman walks past debris along a street in Aleppo’s Belleramoun Industrial Zone, Syria February 2, 2017. Picture taken February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Kazakhstan Invites Syrian Regime, Rebels to Astana Meetings

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 11, 2017 | Middle East

Delegations from the Syrian regime and rebels along with U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura have been invited to attend meetings on the Syria crisis in Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana on February 15-16, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. According to...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) gestures next to United Nations Special Envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland May 2, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Kerry Sees Hope of Extending Truce to Syria’s Aleppo

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 2, 2016 | Middle East

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday talks were closer to extending a Syrian truce to Aleppo with ‘several proposals’ being discussed. Kerry highlighted the intensified violence divided northern city has witnessed in recent weeks, which led to torpedoing...

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Un Special Envoy to Syria Staffan De Mistura talking to reporters on Wednesday in Geneva

De Mistura’s Mission in Syria Awaits “Russian Relief”

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 29, 2016 | Middle East

Paris-Western Diplomatic sources, who are up to date with all contacts in Geneva and to the movements performed by the U.N. Special Envoy to Syria Staffan De Mistura, said that the latter in on his way to lose any margin for the political and diplomatic movements,...

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Washington Lacks Decisiveness… Moscow Has Solution for Syrian Crisis, Al-Zoubi

by Michel Abu Najm | Apr 15, 2016 | Interviews

Geneva-Asaad al-Zoubi, chief negotiator for main Syrian opposition’s High Negotiations Council, expressed regret from the absence of decisiveness in Washington’s stances toward the Syrian file, which, according to al-Zoubi, if was more decisive, then the crisis’s...