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Sunday, December 8, 2024
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Sunday, December 8, 2024
UN envoy voices ‘cautious hope’ for Syria at its ‘watershed moment’
The UN special envoy to Syria says the country is at “a watershed moment,” after Islamist-led rebels declared they have taken Damascus, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule.
Describing nearly 14 years of civil war in Syria as a “dark chapter [that] has left deep scars,” Geir Pedersen says in a statement that “today we look forward with cautious hope to the opening of a new one — one of peace, reconciliation, dignity and inclusion for all Syrians.”
