Peace Negotiations
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 08:32
Kerry said, adding: "There are plenty of ways that that door can be opened in the next weeks or months, and my hope is they will want to join in a constructive solution."
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 08:25
"We have had some fairly clear indications that the parties are willing to discuss issues of access to needy people, the liberation of prisoners and local ceasefires," U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said.
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 06:26
The South Sudanese government has accused rebel troops of committing atrocities against civilians by killing 127 hospital patients in the town of Bor last month.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 13:59
This press briefing addresses nuclear negotiation with Iran, human rights abuses in Syria, and bilateral security agreements with Afghanistan
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 13:09
"That means that Bashar Assad will not be part of that transition government. There is no way, no way possible, that a man who has led a brutal response to his own people can regain legitimacy to govern."
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 12:55
Opposition leader Ahmed Jarba accused the president of Nazi-style war crimes and demanded the Syrian government delegation at the one-day meeting in Switzerland immediately sign up to an international plan for handing over power.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 12:53
The real work will begin in Geneva on Friday, when it is hoped that the two opposing sides will hold their first face-to-face talks, in the presence only of mediators from the United Nations.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 12:50
It was the third such announcement in just over two weeks and raised to 2,530 the number of new settler homes announced since the start of the year.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 12:49
A review of the events leading up to the diplomatic cockup reveals a series of missteps and misunderstandings, involving Ban and top American and Iranian officials, that threatened to upend one of the U.S.'s most important initiatives in the Middle East.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 11:54
American officials accused Iran of failing to back the aim of the talks, which is to set up a transitional government in war-torn Syria.