(Reuters) -Syriamediator Lakhdar Brahimi will step down on May 31, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday, blaming an international deadlock over how to end the country's three-year civil war for hampering a bid to broker peace. International and regional powers have backed opposing sides in the civil war that has so far killed at least ...

Tehran, March 17, IRNA -- Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian called for an international effort to help resolve the crisis in Syria by facilitating dialogue among the opposing factions. World countries and regional organizations must help devise a political solution in Syria based on a democratic process ...

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With little notice, the United Nations mediator on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, visited Iran on Sunday to discuss the political and military situation. Brahimis mission came a month after two sets of talks in Geneva failed to bring agreement on an agenda, let alone issues, between regime and opposition delegations. Iran was not present at the discussions,...

Tehran, March 16, IRNA Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said on Sunday that the United Nations? main prophecy should be maintaining neutrality and providing for materializing the Syrian nation?s demands. The SNSC secretary made the comment during a two-hour a meeting with the visiting UN-Arab League envoy for Syria ...

[caption id="attachment_21012" align="alignright" width="180"] Iran"s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian[/caption] Tehran, March 17, IRNA An Iranian deputy foreign minister said Iran has devised a 4-aricle plan to resolve the Syrian crisis whose main points will be discussed with UN-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi before ...

UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has arrived in Tehran to hold talks with Iranian officials on the ongoing crisis in the Arab country. Brahimi was welcomed by Irans Foreign Ministry officials upon his arrival in Tehran on Sunday. The UN-Arab League Special envoy is scheduled to exchange views with Iranian officials ...

The United Nations envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, will hold talks in Iran on Sunday. Brahimi presided in January and February over the Geneva II discussions, which did not advance towards a political resolution. The envoy said earlier this week that he saw little hope for a further set of negotiations, reportedly putting most of the blame on President ...

United Nations: Syria plans to hold national elections in June or July, its ambassador to the United Nations said Friday, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced that he would send his seasoned Syria mediator, Lakhdar Brahimi, to Iran, the Syrian governments most vital backer in the Middle East. Iran can play a role in impressing upon the Syrian ...

[caption id="attachment_73710" align="alignright" width="180"] A militant is seen clashing with Syrian government forces in the Salaheddin neighborhood of Syria's Aleppo on December 11, 2013.[/caption] More than 350,000 people will have died in Syrias civil war by next year if peace talks dont restart, United Nations mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said ...

TEHRAN: TheUN-Arab Leagueenvoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, will travel to closeDamascusallyIranfor meetings with senior officials, Deputy Foreign MinisterHossein Amir Abdollahiansaid Friday. "Lakhdar Brahimiwill come toTehranon Sunday afternoon," theMehr news agencyquoted Abdollahian as saying. Mehr said Brahimi would meet PresidentHassan Rouhaniand ...

The Syrian government and the foreign-backed opposition will meet in the Swiss city of Geneva to hold the final round of talks on the crisis in Syria. UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimiwill hold a final meeting with delegations from both sides on Saturday as the negotiations wrap up. The Syrian government and the opposition ...

The final day of the second round of Syrian peace talks in Geneva ha been scheduled for February 15, but delegates from both sides said on February 14 that the process had reached a dead end. The opposition delegation wants to speak about a transitional replacement for President Bashar al-Assad, but Syrian government negotiators insist talks must ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Syria's warring sides headed Monday into a new round of peace talks in Geneva, 10 days after a debut session that ended with the agreement to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of Homs. After government and opposition delegates arrived at their Geneva hotels Sunday, they held separate closed-door meetings with UN and Arab ...

GENEVA (AP) -- After more than a week of negotiations aimed at ending its civil war, Syria's government refused Friday to commit to a date for the next round of peace talks and roundly dismissed the opposition's demand to transfer power away from President Bashar Assad. The standoff over what comes after Assad - and the uncertainty over U.N. mediator ...

As he said there was no breakthrough made at negotiations between delegations of Syria government and the foreign-backed opposition, International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said Irans presence in the peace talks could be useful. "Nobody's walking out. Nobody's running away," Brahimi said on Tuesday. "We have not actually made a breakthrough, but we ...

Tehran, Jan 29, IRNA -- UN-Arab League envoy on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi underlined that the mediators will seek Tehran?s cooperation in the future. ?I think we will try to talk and cooperate with Iran in the future, so it would do its role and bear its responsibility in the region,? Brahimi said. Brahimi also said that the US and Russia are working ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 28 (MNA) Syrian peace talks in Geneva were deadlocked after a session Monday aimed at tackling the explosive issue of a transfer of power, delegation sources from the warring sides said. The sources said the talks had broken up with no progress after the Syrian government delegation set out a statement of principles aimed at preserving ...

GENEVA (AP) -- Two days of face-to-face peace talks yielded a narrow and tentative agreement Sunday for women and children trapped in a besieged Syrian city, and the government said President Bashar Assad had no intention of giving up "the keys to Damascus." With little progress to show after months of international pressure for the conference in ...

[caption id="attachment_79040" align="alignright" width="180"] Gathering expectation: (L-R) Lakhdar Brahimi, John Kerry, Ban Ki-moon and Sergei Lavrov in Montreux[/caption] The first day of face-to-face talks between Syrias rival sides did not yield substantial results, International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi told reports Saturday, adding that he hoped ...