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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 562

Staffan de Mistura

A Lebanese soldier stands guard as Syrian refugees gather in their vehicles getting ready to cross into Syria from the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon, on June 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
November 29, 2018, 3:56 pm
Syria: West should lift sanctions to help refugees return
At Kazakhstan talks between government and opposition, Damascus’s UN envoy says ending economic pressure is ‘real test’ of West’s intentions
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
Syrian families walk as members of Russian and Syrian forces stand guard at the Abu Duhur crossing on the eastern edge of Syria's Idlib province on October 23, 2018.(GEORGE OURFALIAN / AFP)
October 26, 2018, 1:22 am
Security Council to meet as Syria diplomatic efforts founder
After talks with outgoing UN envoy, Damascus rejects foreign interference in creation of new post-war constitution
By AFP
Members of the Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the 'White Helmets,' carrying a victim after airstrikes in Kafr Ain in the Idlib province, September 7, 2018. (AFP/Anas al-Dyab)
September 8, 2018, 6:41 am
US drawing up plans should Syrian regime carry out chemical attack on Idlib
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dunford says he and Trump have ‘routine dialogue’ about possible consequences if Assad uses chemical weapons
By ToI Staff and Agencies
UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura speaks on September 4, 2018 in Geneva (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
September 7, 2018, 9:33 pm
UN envoy proposes rebel pullback from Syria’s Idlib
Staffan de Mistura also calls for evacuation corridors to allow civilians to voluntarily leave the war zone, under UN monitoring
By AFP
People look at the damage in the aftermath of an explosion in a rebel-held area of the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on January 8, 2018. (AFP Photo/Omar Haj Kadour)
August 30, 2018, 11:09 pm
UN Syria envoy urges evacuating Idlib civilians
Russia expresses openness to idea, as Moscow and Assad regime seen gearing up for offensive against rebel hold-out that is home to 3 million Syrians
By Jamey Keaten and NATALIYA VASILYEVA
File: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrive for a joint press conference with the Russian and Iranian presidents at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 28, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Sergei Karpukhin)
March 16, 2018, 9:34 am
Iran, Russia and Turkey hold Syria talks in Astana
Gathering of three outside powers with forces embroiled in Syria comes as thousands face hunger in regime forces’ siege in Damascus suburb of Ghouta
By AFP
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks during a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East on December 18, 2017, at UN Headquarters in New York. (AFP Photo/Kena Betancur)
February 14, 2018, 7:42 pm
US says Iran drone incursion into Israel is a ‘wake-up call’ for world
Slamming Iranian presence in Syria, Nikki Haley says ‘when Iran and Hezbollah move in, instability always follows’
By Alexander Fulbright
This photo provided on October 30, 2017, by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), shows a severely malnourished child at the al-Kahef hospital in Kafr Batna, Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria. (UN OCHA via AP)
December 14, 2017, 8:36 pm
400,000 face starvation in Damascus as Assad blocks humanitarian relief
Civilians trapped in suburbs in the city’s east without enough food, fuel or medicine for the winter
By PHILIP ISSA
UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura arrives for a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister in Moscow on November 24, 2017. (AFP Photo/Alexander Nemenov)
November 27, 2017, 7:40 pm
Syrian government won’t attend start of peace talks, UN envoy says
Despite Syria’s absence, Staffan de Mistura expresses optimism over potential to reach political solution to civil war
By AFP
A picture taken on November 22, 2017 shows members of Syrian opposition groups attending the Syrian opposition meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (AFP FAYEZ NURELDINE)
November 26, 2017, 6:25 am
Fresh Syria talks to kick off amid opposition infighting over Assad’s fate
Despite ‘chronic optimism’ from UN chief, negotiations overshadowed by separate Russia-Turkey-Iran process and rebel rift
By AFP
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, shakes hands with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura before their meeting at the US Mission to the UN, in Geneva, Switzerland, October 26, 2017. (AP/Alex Brandon)
October 26, 2017, 10:36 pm
Tillerson again insists Syrian leader Assad must go
US secretary of state meets with UN Syria envoy ahead of peace talks, calls for unification under new rule
By AP
EU High Representative Federica Mogherini (R) addresses the Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region Conference on February 5, 2016 in London. (Screen capture/YouTube)
April 6, 2017, 11:24 am
UN humanitarian chief says $6 billion pledged for Syria
Additional $3.7b. is earmarked for 2018 and beyond; donations announced at solidarity conference in Brussels
By AP and Jacob Magid
A convoy of humanitarian aid waits in front of the UNRWA offices before making their way into the rebel-held towns of Madaya, Zabadani and al-Moadhamiya in the Damascus countryside, as part of a UN-sponsored aid operation, in Damascus, Syria, February 17, 2016. (AP)
March 29, 2017, 5:19 pm
Evacuation deal reached for four Syrian towns
Critics saying Assad redrawing map with forced displacement after agreement to involve more than 30,000 people
By Maya Gebeily
Illustrative: A picture taken on March 27, 2017, shows the delegations of the Palestinian Authority (L), Oman (C) and Iraq (R) attending the preparatory meeting of Arab Foreign Ministers during the 28th Summit of the Arab League at the Dead Sea, south of the Jordanian capital Amman. (Ahmad Abdo/AFP)
March 29, 2017, 9:39 am
Arab leaders meet to address conflicts and terror
Israeli-Palestinian peace process on the agenda as UN chief, Mideast state heads convene at Jordan summit
By Kamal Taha
UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura (left), reacts during an Intra-Syria meeting with Syria's opposition delegation in Geneva, Switzerland, March 28, 2017. (AFP/Xu Jinquan/Pool)
March 28, 2017, 8:36 pm
No peace deal in Syria without US role — opposition
Chief negotiator for the rebels says Washington has a moral duty to bring conflict to an end
By AFP
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