UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has decided to send his envoy Staffan de Mistura to a peace conference in Russia next week, a UN spokesman said Saturday, despite an opposition boycott. Guterres “is confident that the congress in Sochi will be an important contribution” to reviving the peace talks held under ...
The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad affirmed that Syria is bent on pushing ahead with counter-terrorism aided by friendly countries, namely Iran and Russia, which sets the stage for a peaceful solution. The President’s remarks came as he received on Saturday Iran’s Foreign Minister’s Special Assistant in Political Affairs Hussein Jaberi ...
