Frustrated Syria mediator Brahimi to step down, U.N. seeks replacement
(Reuters) – Syria mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will step down on May 31, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday, blaming an international deadlock over…
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Iran urges int’l support for an end to Syrian crisis
Tehran, March 17, IRNA — Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian called for an international effort to…
Photos: Iran’s FM Zarif meets UN envoy Brahimi in Tehran
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Iran daily: UN’s Brahimi holds Syria talks in Tehran
With little notice, the United Nations mediator on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, visited Iran on Sunday to discuss the political and military situation.…
Iran: UNˈs main duty neutrality, respecting Syriansˈ demands
Tehran, March 16, IRNA – Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said on Sunday that the United Nationsˈ main…
Iran to discuss 4-article plan to resolve Syrian crisis with Brahimi
Tehran, March 17, IRNA – An Iranian deputy foreign minister said Iran has devised a 4-aricle plan to resolve the Syrian crisis…
Brahimi arrives in Tehran for Syria crisis talks
UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has arrived in Tehran to hold talks with Iranian officials on the ongoing crisis…
Don’t ignore Syria amid the crisis in Ukraine, UN’s Brahimi says
More than 350,000 people will have died in Syria’s civil war by next year if peace talks don’t restart, United Nations mediator…
Syria government, opposition set to meet again in Geneva
The Syrian government and the foreign-backed opposition will meet in the Swiss city of Geneva to hold the final round of talks…
Syrian peace talks hit dead end
The final day of the second round of Syrian peace talks in Geneva ha been scheduled for February 15, but delegates from…
Brahimi to open second round of Geneva II talks to end crisis in Syria
TEHRAN (FNA)- Syria’s warring sides headed Monday into a new round of peace talks in Geneva, 10 days after a debut session…
Syria puts 2nd round of peace talks on hold
GENEVA (AP) — After more than a week of negotiations aimed at ending its civil war, Syria’s government refused Friday to commit…
Brahimi: Mediators to seek Tehranˈs cooperation in future
Tehran, Jan 29, IRNA — UN-Arab League envoy on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi underlined that the mediators will seek Tehranˈs cooperation in the…
Geneva-2 deadlocked over calls for transfer of power
TEHRAN, Jan. 28 (MNA) – Syrian peace talks in Geneva were deadlocked after a session Monday aimed at tackling the explosive issue…
Syria talks yield narrow deal, Assad ‘red line’
GENEVA (AP) — Two days of face-to-face peace talks yielded a narrow and tentative agreement Sunday for women and children trapped in…
Brahimi: Syrian talks haven’t achieved much
The first day of face-to-face talks between Syria’s rival sides did not yield substantial results, International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi told reports Saturday,…
Syrian opposition refuses to meet govt face-to-face at Geneva 2 talks
The Syrian opposition involved in the Geneva 2 peace talks said a face-to-face meeting with President Bashar Assad’s representatives is unlikely to…
Both sides on Syrian to meet in ‘same room’
GENEVA (AP) — Bending to intense international pressure, Syria’s government and the Western-backed opposition agreed Friday to face each other for the…
UN stresses again on importance of Iran’s role in Geneva 2
New York, Jan 9, IRNA – An spokesman of the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon said that the secretary general and his…
US opposition to Iran role in Syria conference illogical: Russia
Russia Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov says the US opposition to Iran’s participation in the upcoming international conference on Syria is illogical.…
Brahimi phones Zarif to discuss Geneva II conference
Tehran, Dec 21, IRNA — UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi phoned Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to inform…
Difficult to have Iran at Syria peace talks: U.S. official
(Reuters) – A senior U.S. official said on Friday that it was “difficult to imagine” Iran attending Syrian peace talks next month as…
No agreement on Iran invite to Syria conference
GENEVA: The U.S. is blocking Iran’s participation at the Syria peace conference planned for next month but the other delegations have been agreed up…
Iran, Saudi among 30 countries invited to Syria talks
BEIRUT: Iran and Saudi Arabia, which back opposite sides in Syria’s war, are among more than 30 countries slated to attend a peace conference…
Photos: World leaders, family and celebrities join tens of thousands in South Africa
South Africans, world leaders and celebrities braved the rain to honor the former South African president and anti-apartheid icon. MIKE HUTCHINGS/REUTERS…
The elders welcome Geneva interim agreement with Iran
The Elders this week welcomed the interim agreement reached in Geneva between the P5+1 group of countries and the Islamic Republic of Iran…
‘Mission of hope’: Nothing but date is certain about upcoming Geneva-2 peace talks on Syria
January 22, 2014 has been named as the date for the new Geneva peace conference on Syria, but the agenda, make-up of…
Brahimi: Syria talks to have no preconditions
TEHRAN (FNA)- UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said that the Geneva II conference on Syria, set for January 22,…
Syria confab date to be set in Geneva next week
Envoys from the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations are scheduled to hold a meeting in Geneva to…