The United Nations’ peace envoy for Syria will attend talks next week convened by Iran, Russia and Turkey on shoring up a ceasefire in Syria, the UN spokesman said Thursday. Staffan de Mistura will lead the UN delegation to the meetings in the Kazakh capital of Astana that are due ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad expected that the upcoming Syrian peace talks in Astana will focus on ceasefire rather than political dialogue. In an interview with Japanese channel TBS, Assad said the talks will also tackle conciliation between the Syrian sides. “We don’t have, let’s say, expectations concerning Astana talks. But ...
