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euronews
March 29, 2018
One month has passed since the United Nations agreed a cease-fire in Syria - and at least 871 civilians, including 179 children, have been killed in the region of Eastern ... Assessing casualties in Syria is difficult and inaccurate due to the ongoing conflict and lack of access to international organisations.
Egypt Independent
March 28, 2018
UN Security Council members vented frustrations and traded blame Tuesday over their unheeded demand for a 30-day cease-fire in Syria, with the US envoy ... 24 vote, the council called for a 30-day break in hostilities “without delay” to enable humanitarian aid and medical evacuations as Syria enters itsÃâà...
10News
March 27, 2018
The failed U.N. ceasefire in Syria and Russia's enabling of the Assad regime marks a "day of shame" for the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told council members. The council met Tuesday to go over how effective its existing resolutions on Syria had been. Haley was pointed in herÃâà...
Malay Mail
March 23, 2018
Syrian Army soldiers stand next to a military tank, at the city limits of Harasta, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria March 22, 2018. — Reuters picBEIRUT, March 23 — A Syrian rebel group which still controls a pocket of the Eastern Ghouta enclave yesterday announced a ceasefire fromÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 23, 2018
Southwest Syria could be the next confrontation zone in Syria's multiple regional wars. The US-Russian cease-fire agreement is collapsing, except in the buffer zone on the Iraqi-Jordanian border. The Syrian regime and its allies are making their way through to the Nassib border crossing and the GolanÃâà...
The Guardian
March 23, 2018
The agreement, which was confirmed by the spokesman of the second-largest rebel group in the area, will allow civilians and fighters to either leave for northern Syria or remain in their homes and reconcile with the regime of Bashar al-Assad, with guarantees from Moscow that they will not be prosecutedÃâà...
BBC News
March 22, 2018
One of the remaining Syrian rebel groups in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta, outside Damascus, has announced a ceasefire. The Faylaq al-Rahman group said the UN-brokered truce was to begin in the south of the enclave at 22:00 GMT. It said the move would allow talks with the Russian military,Ãâà...
Tampabay.com
March 22, 2018
The media arm of Lebanon's Hezbollah group and an opposition activist group say the second-largest rebel group in eastern Ghouta has declared a cease-fire in order to negotiate leaving the area. The group's Al-Manar TV and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say Failaq al-RahmanÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 22, 2018
WFP dispatched food assistance for 2.7 million people in all 14 Syrian governorates under the February cycle, achieving 90 percent of the monthly plan. • Despite the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2401, which established a ceasefire, the security situation continued to worsen across Syria,Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 19, 2018
The main rebel group in the southern pocket of Syria's opposition-held eastern Ghouta has said it is negotiating with a United Nations delegation about a ceasefire, aid and the evacuation of urgent medical cases. “We are engaged in arranging serious negotiations to guarantee the safety and protection ofÃâà...
CNN
March 12, 2018
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, decried the pummeling of Ghouta and said Washington was "prepared to act" if the Security Council failed to demand an immediate, 30-day ceasefire. Speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council meeting on Monday, Haley questioned whether Moscow hadÃâà...
Newsweek
March 8, 2018
The Russian government has derided the United States Department of State on Twitter, accusing its top spokesperson of “spamming all of us” with criticism of Moscow's bombings in Syria. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted in response to department spokeswoman Heather Nauert's post,Ãâà...
The Independent
March 7, 2018
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised a UN-mandated ceasefire in Syria designed to stop the recent bloodshed in eastern Ghouta while defending his own military's two-month-old operation against the Kurds in Afrin. The unanimous UN decision on a resolution demanding a 30-dayÃâà...
Voice of America
March 7, 2018
U.N. Security Council President Karel van Oosterom on Wednesday reiterated a call for all parties in Syria to implement a nationwide cease-fire and expressed concern about Syria's humanitarian crisis. ... So much for Russia's commitment to ceasefire, civilian safety, and humanitarian assistance. AstanaÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 5, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron has urged his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to ensure that Syria accepts "without any ambiguity" a UN resolution calling for a 30-day cease-fire, the French presidency says. Macron's office said he made the call during a telephone conversation on March 5, theÃâà...
The Guardian
March 2, 2018
So today we say in plain terms for all humanity: the members of the security council can and must uphold the ceasefire. We cannot consign yet another promise to Syrian civilians to the rubbish bin of history nor can we accept any watered-down version of the agreement. We must act now to save lives.
Aljazeera.com
March 1, 2018
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the UN ceasefire resolution for Syria effectively meaningless given the Syrian government's continued bombing of Eastern Ghouta. "God curse your resolution!" Erdogan said of the UN ceasefire, "the resolution that never went into effect has noÃâà...
New York Times
February 22, 2018
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council, facing staunch opposition from Russia, failed to pass a resolution on Thursday that would have imposed a 30-day cease-fire in Syria to allow humanitarian aid to reached a besieged Damascus suburb. With new reports on Thursday of a rocketÃâà...
13abc Action News
December 31, 1999
The U.N. Security Council is again demanding a cease-fire throughout Syria and backing a U.N.-endorsed roadmap for a peaceful transition and elections in the conflict-torn country. The council reaffirmed in a statement following a briefing Friday by the U.N. envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, that U.N.-ledÃâà...
Axios
December 31, 1999
Why it matters: U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said at the vote last week that eyes would "be on the Syrian regime, Iran and Russia," and that Assad must "for once, allow humanitarian access to all of those who need it" in Ghouta. But residents say no aid has been allowed in, and no cease-fire hasÃâà...
