The United Nations hopes for “serious negotiation” between the government and a still-to-be-formed unified Syrian “opposition” in October or November this year, the U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. “Regarding the [Syrian] government, we are counting very much on Russia, on Iran, on anyone who has got ...
An Istanbul court has placed under arrest nine journalists on suspicion of links to the alleged mastermind of the failed 2016 coup, the latest in a series of measures against Turkish media workers that have alarmed the West. Turkish authorities had on August 10 issued arrest warrants for 35 media ...