High Negotiations Committee (HNC) accepted US-Russia plan as UN efforts to air drop aid encounter difficulties. The ceasefire is scheduled to go into effect and will not include Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militants or those from Jabhat al-Nusra, the local branch of al-Qaeda.
Major powers agreed to havea ceasefire in Syria. ISIS and ISIL not included. Major Powers have agreed to a "cessation of hostilities" in the coming week in Syria.
A U.S. federal judge denied the petition for preliminary injunction to prevent a resettlement for Syrian refugees in Texas. The decision said that Texas officials contentions are speculative at best.
South Carolina has approved the bill to track refugees inside their territory. The state is the first one to come up with this kind of initiative to support evacuees.
The Prime Minister of Britain is urging European Union leaders to relax the trade rules with Jordan in an effort to provide more support for those affected by the Syrian conflict.
Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa and photographer Ricardo Garcia-Vilanova were reportedly abducted by a rebel group linked to al Qaeda known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on September 16 at a checkpoint in Raqqa province
Navi Pillay, who heads the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner, said at a Geneva Conference on Monday that a growing body of evidence collected by investigators "points to the involvement of senior Syrian officials," which include President Bashar Assad for crimes against humanity and war crimes,
The United Nations said on Monday that Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government and the opposition will hold their first negotiations, which aims to end the county's civil war, in planned peace talks to take place in Geneva on January 22
Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, defended President Barack Obama's policies on the civil war in Syria, arguing that the recent United Nations agreement to destroy President Bashar Assad's stockpile of chemical weapons is a benefit, even if the massive scale of violence wages on.
China assumed the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of November at a time of tumult all over the world. Liu Jieyi, the permanent representative to the United Nations, will preside over the Security Council
The 68th session of the U.N. General Assembly began in New York this week as members of almost 200 countries converged for a week of diplomacy and dialogue in hopes of reaching important breakthroughs for some of the most important world issues.
The United Nations has confirmed in a report that chemical weapons were used "unequivocally and objectively," which Secretary General Ban Ki Moon constituted as a "war crime" on Monday, as reported by BBC News. The UN, however did not attribute blame who used the weapons in the Syrian civil war.
The United States and Russia struck a compromise on Saturday, which allows the Syrian government its stockpile of chemical weapons to be removed or destroyed by next year.
Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday, in an effort to seek a diplomatic breakthrough in the continuing crisis in Syria, NBC News reported. Thursday's meeting was hastily set up after Kerry announced, somewhat off-handedly, on Monday that the Assad government may be able to avoid a military strike by the U.S. if it turned over all its chemical weapons within a week. That unusually delivered proposal was soon endorsed by his Russian counterpart.
In an effort to capitalize on his country's achievement in averting a U.S. strike on Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin penned an article in The New York Times on Wednesday, chiding America about its history of military intervention, and that a strike would not be wise
President Barack Obama said Tuesday night that while he wants to punish Bashar al Assad's use of chemical weapons, he said in a primetime speech that he would put off a military strike and work with Russia, China to coax the Syrian dictator to relinquish its chemical weapons,
On the same day President Obama is expected to address the American public about a potential military strike on the Assad regime in Syria, a White House official said the the U.S. commander in chief has agreed to discussions at the United Nations Security Council, which would involve Russia's proposal to secure Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger weighed in on the current Syrian crisis involving potential military intervention by the U.S. , in an appearance Monday on CNN's Christiane Amanpour's show
Three Russian warships crossed Turkey's Bosphorus Strait on Thursday en route to the eastern Mediterranean, near the Syrian coast, Reuters reported. Russians say they are concerned about potential US-led strikes in response to the Damascus regime's alleged use of chemical weapons, and are seeking to block their intentions.
Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said that there is "no viable path forward" in the Security Council regarding authorizing military strikes against the Bashar al-Assad's regime through a resolution agreed upon by the 5 most powerful nations, thanks in large part to Russia holding it "hostage,"
One day after calling U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a liar, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with President Barack Obama at the G-20 summit on Thursday.
