GENEVA (AP) -- The key issue of a transitional government to replace President Bashar Assad blocked any progress Monday in Syrian peace talks, described by one delegate as "a dialogue of the deaf."
The chief U.N. mediator expressed frustration over inflammatory public remarks by the two sides as he sought to identify some less-contentious issues in ...
TEHRAN, Jan. 28 (MNA) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Syrian opposition is dreaming if they think they can oust President Bashar al-Assad because they are in no position to overthrow the Syrian government.
In an interview with the Swiss daily Neue Zrcher Zeitung, Zarif said that the main goal for all sides in the Syria conflict ...
TEHRAN, Jan. 28 (MNA) Syrian peace talks in Geneva were deadlocked after a session Monday aimed at tackling the explosive issue of a transfer of power, delegation sources from the warring sides said.
The sources said the talks had broken up with no progress after the Syrian government delegation set out a statement of principles aimed at preserving ...
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has launched a defence of Americas foreign policy,strongly rebuffingclaims that President Barack Obamas unwillingness to deploy force in troubled regions meant it was withdrawing from the world stage.
In a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Kerry said the US expected Iran to deliver on its nuclear proliferation ...
GENEVA (AP) -- Two days of face-to-face peace talks yielded a narrow and tentative agreement Sunday for women and children trapped in a besieged Syrian city, and the government said President Bashar Assad had no intention of giving up "the keys to Damascus."
With little progress to show after months of international pressure for the conference in ...
[caption id="attachment_73710" align="alignright" width="180"] A militant is seen clashing with Syrian government forces in the Salaheddin neighborhood of Syria's Aleppo on December 11, 2013.[/caption]
TEHRAN (FNA)- Wednesdays opening of talks on the Syrian crisis was dominated by the Obama administrations insistence that the purpose of the Geneva ...
Nasim has held an online interview with the founder of StopImperialism.com Eric Draitser about the Geneva II talks on Syrian issue and the role the US and its Middle Eastern allies play in the crisis.
UNchief Ban Ki-moon decided to withdraw his invitation of Iran to attend Syria peace talks under pressure by the United States. Now, many countries ...
(Reuters) - Syria's opposition leader laid out his demands for talks on ending his country's civil war, calling for the creation of a transitional government that does not include President Bashar al-Assad.
Ahmed Jarba told reporters in Geneva, where rival sides in the Syrian conflict are on Friday due to begin several days of negotiations under the ...
MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) -- Furiously divided from the start, representatives of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the rebellion against him threatened Wednesday to collapse a peace conference intended to lead them out of civil war.
Assad's future in the country devastated by three years of bloodshed was at the heart of the sparring, which took ...
MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) -- The head of Syria's Western-backed opposition says any discussion of President Bashar Assad staying in power will effectively end peace talks before they have begun.
Ahmad al-Jarba, head of the Syrian National Coalition, said the purpose of the peace conference beginning Wednesday in Switzerland was to set up a transitional ...
MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) -- Syria's foreign minister has accusing his country's opposition of being traitors and agents of Israel and says neighboring countries set Syria ablaze by sending arms and fighters to the civil war.
Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem spoke just after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who accused Syria's government of turning ...
MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says there is no way that Syrian President Bashar Assad can be part of a transitional government that's being discussed at an international conference aimed at ending the country's brutal conflict.
Kerry said Wednesday at the conference that Assad has lost his legitimacy to lead after ...
President Bashar Assad said in an exclusive interview to AFP that he has decided to participate in Syrias future presidential elections. He also stressed that the War on Terror should be the major focus of the Geneva 2 peace conference.
With the Geneva 2 peace talks starting on Wednesday, January 22, Assad set the record straight on what he and his ...
TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (MNA) Western nations have indicated to the Syrian opposition that peace talks next month may not lead to the removal of President Bashar al-Assad, adding that he must remain in power to prevent an al-Qaeda takeover of the country.
"Our Western friends made it clear in London that Assad cannot be allowed to go now because ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Syrian information minister Omran al-Zoabi assured that President Bashar al-Assad will remain in his post during the transitional period agreed upon in Geneva peace talks planned for next month.
"If anyone thinks we are going to Geneva 2 to hand the keys to Damascus over (to the opposition), then he might as well not go," Zohbi said ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Syria rejected the exclusion of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from political transition in the country.
"The era of colonialism has gone forever," an official source at Syrias Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, in reply to statements by some western countries and their Arab allies that Assad should have no part in a transitional ...