
United Nations’ top envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura announced Wednesday that new talks between Syria’s government and opposition will take place “in about a month” and said this eighth round must finally move to “genuine negotiations on the political future” of the war-ravaged country. Briefing the 15-member Security Council, ...

As he stressed that Damascus was ready to cooperate with efforts to help the Syrian people, Syria’s representative to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, stressed that such efforts should be honest and not politicized. During a UN Security Council session on Wednesday, Jaafari said: “It’s time to stop lies and ...