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ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — Air strikes and shelling on Syria’s second city Aleppo and a town to its west left 25 civilians reported dead Tuesday, as a surge in violence tests a troubled ceasefire. UN chief Ban Ki-moon said he was “deeply concerned” by the fighting and urged both sides to stick to the two-month-old truce and troubled peace talks in Geneva. “The cessation of hostilities should go on, otherwise it will be very difficult […]
by Layal Abou Rahal with Dave Clark and Fran Blandy in Paris GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Syria’s warring sides gathered in Geneva Sunday for UN-brokered indirect peace talks as the United States and France warned the Damascus regime against trying to disrupt the fragile ceasefire. As the fifth anniversary of the violence looms, the main players in the conflict were on Monday to resume negotiations in the latest bid to end bloodshed which has killed […]
The Syria peace talks in Geneva struggled to continue into a second day as the Syrian government did not accept opposition’s precondition for official negotiation. The United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, was scheduled to meet with the Syrian main opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) delegation for the second time on Tuesday afternoon at the UN headquarters in Geneva. But the meeting was canceled after the Syrian government denied the opposition’s […]
Amateur videos posted to social media websites purported to show air strikes on rebel positions in Homs province of Syria on Wednesday (January 27), as well as intense fighting for control of the strategic town of Sheikh Maskin. Fighting raged as plans to hold the first negotiations to end the civil war in Syria for two years were in doubt. The main Syrian opposition group said on Wednesday that they would not show up for […]
