Iran Seeks Sustained Dialogue
Barbara Slavin reports: As Iran and world powers agreed to continue talking, Iranian officials put forward a detailed explanation of their point of view including a proposal for high-level negotiations...
View ArticleDraft UN resolution calls for sanctions if Syria troops don't stop killing in...
The Back Channel is posting a draft UN Security Council resolution circulating on Syria, dated July 12, 2012. The draft resolution, written by British diplomats in close consultation with the US,...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: Outraged at “credible” reports of new Syria massacre
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday she was outraged at “credible” reports of mass killings in the Syrian village of Tramseh, and called for an immediate ceasefire so UN monitors could go...
View ArticleKofi Annan faults West for breakdown in Syria mediation efforts
Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Thursday faulted western countries’ insistence on seeking a UN Security Council Chapter 7 resolution opposed by Russia and China in part for the...
View ArticleReport: UN to blacklist Syria’s Al-Nusra Front
The United Nations Security Council is expected to formally designate the Syrian Al Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front as a terrorist group next week, Agence-France Press reported Friday, amid intensified...
View ArticleWhite House: UN needs immediate access to Syria site
The White House on Wednesday demanded that United Nations inspectors be given immediate access to a site near Damascus where Syrian opposition activists claimed hundreds were killed in an overnight...
View ArticleSyria parties to meet in same room, ‘understand what is at stake': Brahimi
Geneva, Switzerland__ The United Nations’ Syria envoy announced that Syria’s two bitterly divided parties have agreed to sit down together in the same room Saturday for the first time, after refusing...
View ArticleU.S. says willing to join Russia in Syria peace talks
As a new round of Syria peace talks got underway in Geneva Monday, the United States said it was open to a Russian proposal that American and Russian diplomats join the UN and Syrian parties in a joint...
View ArticleSen. Kaine says Russia can do more to resolve Syria crisis
Senator Tim Kaine (Democrat-Virginia), speaking to Al-Monitor Friday before he embarked on a Congressional delegation to the Middle East, said while there is cautious optimism about current U.S....
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