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Topic: William Burns

January 12, 2013
9:22 pm

Syrian rebels from al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, wave their brigade flag as they step on the top of a Syrian air force helicopter, at Taftanaz air base that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday January 11 2013 (photo credit: AP/Edlib News Network ENN)

Syrian army pushes rebels back from Damascus suburb

Human rights activists say military firing artillery, conducting airstrikes against opposition forces around the capital

January 11, 2013
2:30 pm

The UN Joint Special Representative for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi arrives for a meeting with Russian deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov and US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday, Jan. 11 (photo credit: AP/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)

UN envoy says negotiated end to Syrian civil war not around the corner

Lakhdar Brahimi says Russia and US concerned about growing bloodshed

January 9, 2013
8:04 pm

Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures as speaks at the Opera House in central Damascus, Syria, last month (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Russia calls on West to heed Assad’s proposals

Emabttled Syrian leader’s plan calls for keeping him in power to oversee the election of a new government

January 4, 2013
2:50 am

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and UN envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi talk during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Dec. 29 (photo credit: AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

New US-Russia talks on Syria possible next week

UN Security Council president says envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is trying to pave the way for a diplomatic breakthrough

December 12, 2012
4:33 pm

A Free Syrian Army fighter points his weapon as he watches a Syrian Army jet, not pictured, in Fafeen village, north of Aleppo province, Syria, on Tuesday, December 11, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Syrian opposition calls for ‘real support,’ not just recognition

Bread and medical supplies not enough to topple the Assad regime, Marrakech summit told

By Paul Schemm

December 11, 2012
10:23 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pauses during a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, December 5. (photo credit: AP/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

Clinton cancels Mideast trip due to stomach virus

William Burns to take secretary’s place on visits to Morocco, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates

November 29, 2012
6:29 pm

The results of a draft resolution on Palestinian status are posted in the United Nations headquarters, Thursday, November 29 (photo credit: AP/Kathy Willens)

UN General Assembly votes 138-9, with 41 abstentions, in favor of nonmember status for ‘Palestine’

Celebrations in Ramallah after General Assembly approves upgraded observer status; Netanyahu slams Abbas’s ‘hate-filled speech’; US regrets ‘unfortunate, counterproductive’ vote

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Joshua Davidovich

November 29, 2012
5:31 pm

Palestinian schoolgirls hold pictures of President Mahmoud Abbas with Yasser Arafat, flowers and olive branches during a rally supporting the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. (photo credit:AP/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Hamas changes its tune, celebrates Palestinian UN bid

Thousands of Palestinians from rival factions take to the streets of West Bank cities ahead of landmark vote

By Amy Tiebel and Karin Laub

November 29, 2012
12:42 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a visit to an exhibition marking 35 years since Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel, at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, on Thursday, November 29 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘There is no power in the world that can disconnect the Jewish people from the land of Israel,’ Netanyahu says

Germany announces it will abstain at the General Assembly, Abbas brushes off ‘heavy’ pressure to abandon UN upgrade gambit

By Aaron Kalman and Gabe Fisher

November 29, 2012
10:25 am

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Nov. 16 (photo AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Abbas brushes off Israeli threats surrounding UN bid

While supporters call General Assembly vote on Palestine a ‘historic moment,’ Jerusalem downplays the bid as ‘a virtual move’

By Aaron Kalman

November 29, 2012
12:55 am

Palestinian security officers slide down a building next to a banner of President Mahmoud Abbas with Yasser Arafat, in the West Bank town of Jenin on Wednesday. Arabic on the left reads "our hero prisoners, the covenant is the covenant and the section is the section, your liberty will stay our first priority," and right, "all your people (are) with you."(photo credit: AP/Mohammed Ballas)

Palestinians reject 11th-hour bid by US to stop statehood gambit

PA remains committed to going ahead with request for nonmember state status at UN after Abbas meets with top State Department officials

By Joshua Davidovich and AP

November 5, 2012
6:32 pm

Valerie Jarrett (photo credit: Wikipedia/Joyce N. Boghosian, White House photographer)

Obama’s personal emissary holding secret talks with Iran, Israeli paper claims

Iranian-born special adviser Valerie Jarrett said to be negotiating with representative of Tehran’s supreme leader Khamenei

By Times of Israel staff

October 28, 2012
6:49 am

A mural outside the former US Embassy in Tehran. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA davehighbury, Flickr)

Obama offered to reestablish full ties with Iran, Israeli paper reports

Israel was told about and opposed president’s diplomatic incentives package, initiated soon after he took office, and Iran rebuffed it, according to Maariv

By Joshua Davidovich

July 31, 2012
6:29 am

Ehud Barak and Leon Panetta in Tel Aviv in October (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Flash90)

Panetta, arriving Tuesday, to urge more patience for Iran sanctions

We have to keep up the economic pressure on Tehran, says US defense secretary

By Sam Ser and AP

July 17, 2012
7:57 am

Former deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

Deputy FM predicts crippling US sanctions on Tehran within weeks

Danny Ayalon says Israel and US are on the same page, including on the use of force if necessary

By Ron Friedman

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