RIGHTS GROUP CALLS FOR ‘REAL PRESSURE’ ON SYRIA
By FRANK JORDANS Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, speaks during the annual press conference of the non governmental organization in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The…
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UN WITHDRAWS IRAN INVITATION TO SYRIA TALKS
By CARA ANNA Jordanian Foreign Minister and President of the United Nations Security Council Nasser Judeh , right, listens to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a meeting of the United…
SYRIAN OPPOSITION ISSUES ULTIMATUM ON PEACE TALKS
By BASSEM MROUE and LORI HINNANT FILE – In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 file photo, A Free Syrian Army fighter stands next to a painting on a piece of…
SYRIA PROPOSES ALEPPO CEASE-FIRE, PRISONER SWAP
By ZEINA KARAM and LAURA MILLS Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem enter a hall hand in hand for their talks in Moscow, Russia,…
EU POISED TO SUSPEND SOME SANCTIONS ON IRAN
BY JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Putin credited…
IRAN’S FM DISCUSSES PEACE TALKS WITH SYRIA’S ASSAD
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meets with his Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Zarif visits Jordan as part of his regional tour of…
CHINA CONDEMNS JAPAN LEADER ON VISIT TO ETHIOPIA
By ELIAS MESERET Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, sits between Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, right, and Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission Erastus Mwencha, left, during Abe’s…
RUSSIA: ASSAD MULLING OPEN HUMANITARIAN ACCESS
By LARA JAKES and LORI HINNANT US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, with with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and U.N-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, center,…