Damascus opposes autonomy of eastern Aleppo
Syrian government rejects all proposals to establish autonomous regions in the country
Staffan de Mistura
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Damascus rejects eastern Aleppo's self-administration as undermining sovereignty
Syrian authorities completely reject the idea of self-administration in the eastern districts of the country's northern city of Aleppo, because it would undermine Syria's national sovereignty, Syrian Foreign Minister …
De Mistura arrives in Damascus for meeting with Syrian FM
UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has arrived in Damascus. It is planned that during the meeting he will meet with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, Sputnik reported. It is …
Putin: Russia, Turkey call for urgent end to bloodshed in Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have urged a swift end to the bloodshed in war-torn Syria, following talks between the two leaders in Istanbul on Monday, RT …
UN Security Council holds meeting on Aleppo
The United Nations Security Council will hold a meeting on the initiative of Russia on the situation in Aleppo, to discuss the proposal of UN Secretary General Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on the withdrawal of the …
UN Security Council to meet on Syria after Russia's request
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Syria today after a UN envoy warned that eastern Aleppo may be totally destroyed in the next few months by the Russian and Syrian air campaign. Russia requested the meeting to …
Pause in Syria
Both US and Russia extend Syrian ceasefire by 48 hours after determining truce is holding
Apprehension over US-Russia ceasefire deal on Syria
All previous attempts to bring about a peaceful resolution to the over-five-year conflict have failed
Damascus managed to eliminate stronghold of illegal armed formations through negotiation
The Syrian authorities granted intransigent jihadists safe passage to Idlib province after they laid down their arms
De Mistura: new evacuation agreements possible in Syria
The UN Secretary General's special envoy Staffan de Mistura warned that a recent agreement that saw the population of a Damascus suburb evacuated after surrendering to the government could be repeated in other places …
No humanitarian convoys reach besieged areas in Syria in week
The UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said that no aid convoys had reached besieged areas of Syria for the past month, and that he had suspended a humanitarian task force until next week as a signal to major …
Lavrov hopes there will be less disagreements on Syria with Turkey
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hopes that normalization of relations with Turkey will help reduce the number of existing disagreements on Syria. "Normalization of relations with Turkey will have a …
Date of new inter-Syrian talks to be determined with the consideration of Ramadan
The UN's Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura expressed optimism on Wednesday that the stalled peace talks could resume, but stressed it had to happen in "soon" to avoid losing momentum, Daily Mail Online reports. …
Russian, Egyptian Foreign Ministers hold phone talk on Syria
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry held a phone talk Thursday, discussing the situation in Syria, as well as other regional issues, the Russian …
Russian, Iranian Deputy Foreign Ministers discuss Syria ceasefire
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov discussed the cessation of hostilities in Syria with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a …
Lavrov: fire in Aleppo may be terminated in the coming hours
The cease-fire in the Syrian city of Aleppo may be introduced in the coming hours, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after talks with the UN Secretary General's special envoy for Syria Staffan de …
Russian Foreign Minister: they should not to dig in heels to achieve progress during Syrian talks
It is necessary not to slam the door and dig in heels to achieve the progress during the inter-Syrian negotiations, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. "In order to come to terms over six months it is …
Syria conflict: Truce in danger of collapse
UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura has said he fears the fragile truce in Syria is collapsing, BBC News reports. In the latest violence, 18 people were reported to have died in government air strikes in Aleppo …
UN notes compliance with truce in Syria
Despite the hostilities in Aleppo, the ceasefire regime in Syria is generally respected, the UN Secretary General's special envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura stated. But, according to him, no one denies that …
De Mistura: relations between RF and US contribute to search for settlement of Syrian crisis
The special envoy of the UN Secretary General, Staffan de Mistura, said today at a press briefing in Geneva on Syria that special relations between Russia and the US had a positive impact on the search for ways to resolve the Syrian crisis. …
