Istanbul summit fails to deliver map to end Syrian conflict
Oct 31,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF The four-way summit that was held in Istanbul on Saturday on Syria was extraordinary in more than one way. Turkish President […]
EXPLAINER: Syrian peace talks in Geneva: what’s going on?
By Simon Bradley May 15, 2017 Children stand among destroyed homes in Autaya in eastern al-Ghouta, Syria, on May 11, 2017(Keystone) Round six of United Nations-brokered talks aimed at ending […]
There Is No Plan B if the Syria Peace Talks Fail
VOICE And, trust me, they will. So what comes next? BY JAMES TRAUB FEBRUARY 1, 2016 The Syrian peace talks that were to start last Monday, then Friday, just might get underway this week. But even if the Syrian regime accepts a U.N. resolution requiring an end to the starvation […]
Syrians in Switzerland on the ‘Geneva 3’ talks
NEGOTIATING TABLE By Yasmine Kanouna in Geneva FEB 2, 2016 – 11:00 The start of the talks in Geneva was met with protests (Keystone) How do Syrians living in Switzerland view the peace talks taking place on their doorstep? swissinfo.ch asked five people what their hopes were for an outcome and […]
The ‘anti-Assad’ view: The impossible peace
Feb 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – HASSAN A. BARARI Syrian opposition leaders suspect that the United States will not work towards ending Syrian President Bashar Assad’s rule. By trying to impose the Russian and Iranian terms on the Syrian opposition, the American administration’s credibility is crumbling among the Syrian opposition. […]
‘Talks’ and killing fields
STORY SUMMARY A week of rhetoric and tension has finally concluded in Switzerland, and Syria’s warring sides are no closer to moving in a direction that may bring relief for […]
‘Ice is breaking’ in Syria talks: UN mediator
GENEVA: The ice is slowly breaking in peace talks between Syria’s warring sides, UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said Wednesday, warning though that no substantive results were expected during this round. […]
Syrians discuss aid, prisoners
ASSOCIATED PRESS ARABNEWS.COM Published — Monday 27 January 2014 GENEVA: Syrians on opposite sides of their country’s civil war tried again Sunday to find common ground, with peace talks focusing on the release of prisoners and an aid convoy to a besieged city that once more came under mortar attacks […]
Hope in Montreux? A Starting Point for Peace in Syria
By Christoph Reuter SPIEGEL.DE Violence in Syria has been appalling in the run up to this week’s peace talks in Switzerland, where rebel and government representatives are to sit down together. Secret meetings in recent months give cause for hope. A bag filled with pieces of bread is dangling from […]
Syrian Opposition Splintered Ahead of Peace Talks
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press Associated Press Within minutes of opening a Twitter account this past week, the leader of Syria’s main Western-backed opposition group received an onslaught of criticism. “Welcome to Twitter Mr. Western Puppet,” one comment to Ahmad al-Jarba read. Others called him a Saudi stooge and scorned […]