Nick Cumming-Bruce
Friday, June 13, 2014 - 10:10
As Sunni insurgents pursued an offensive toward Baghdad on Friday, Navi Pillay, the top United Nations human rights official, expressed “extreme alarm” over what she termed summary executions, rape, reprisal killings and shelling of civilians, putting the first estimate of casualties in the hundreds.
Monday, April 28, 2014 - 12:15
GENEVA — Syria missed a revised deadline on Sunday for completing the export or destruction of chemicals in its weapons arsenal, but the government of the war-ravaged country may be only days away from finishing the job, according to international experts overseeing the process.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 10:43
GENEVA — Two months after the United Nations Security Council ordered Syria’s warring parties to allow access for humanitarian aid to civilians, the heads of five United Nations agencies warned on Wednesday that diplomacy had failed and that the desperate plight of civilians in many parts of the country was getting worse.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:27
The country has now delivered a bit more than 57 percent of its most dangerous, so-called priority one, chemicals, and 82 percent of less toxic, priority two chemicals, said Michael Luhan, a spokesman for the organization.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 06:42
Fighting involving Christian militias, Muslims and foreign troops has killed more than 60 people and wounded more than 100 in the past 10 days in Bangui, Central African Republic, United Nations officials said Tuesday, warning that security was deteriorating and appealing for more peacekeeping troops and police officers.
Sunday, February 16, 2014 - 22:01
“I am very, very sorry, and I apologize to the Syrian people,” Mr. Brahimi, an Algerian diplomat who has spent decades negotiating thorny conflicts, said after a last-ditch, 45-minute meeting with the two sides ended in disagreement.
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 09:45
Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations mediator guiding the peace process, prepared the ground by meeting the opposition’s chief negotiator on Saturday and then holding talks with Syria’s foreign minister, Walid Muallem, after his arrival in Geneva on Sunday.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 07:32
Mr. Zoubi said the American aid to the rebels, now with explicit congressional approval, contradicted the United States’ role as a sponsor of the peace talks.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 07:34
“The humanitarian discussions haven’t produced much unfortunately,” Mr. Brahimi told reporters at the end of Monday’s discussions, citing “all sorts of problems,” including the presence of snipers.
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 06:39
It was the first time the Syrian authorities had reported such attacks in the three months since an international effort began to sequester and purge the country of the banned munitions.