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Not the best start to Syria’s Humpty Dumpty talks
With Iran out of this week’s Geneva II conference, prepare for talks where words mean different things to different people – and which could end with a great fall.
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With Iran out of this week’s Geneva II conference, prepare for talks where words mean different things to different people – and which could end with a great fall.
As a team of international war crimes prosecutors releases images appearing to show evidence of systematic killing in Syria, Channel 4 News asks if this week’s peace talks in Geneva are at risk.
The Syrian National Coalition confirms it will attend peace talks in Geneva on Wednesday, after the UN withdraws its controversial last-minute invitation for Iran to attend.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he has no intention of giving up power and the issue is not up for discussion, accordng to reports.
It is not so different from the nuclear deal Hassan Rouhani offered when he was Tehran’s nuclear negotiator 10 years ago. Now he’s Iran’s president and the western powers are desperate for a deal.
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Syria begins moving chemical weapons materials out of the country in a crucial phase of an internationally backed disarmament programme.
Iraq’s prime minister calls on tribal leaders in Anbar province to expel al-Qaeda linked fighters who have taken over key towns and cities in the region.
One of the world’s all-time football greats, the Portugal and Benfica forward Eusebio, dies at the age of 71.
Well publicised fears that thousands of Bulgarians and Romanians will head to the UK are not backed up by the pattern of migration in the past.
A Syrian army air strike hits a vegetable market in the northern city of Aleppo and kills at least 25 people, activists say.
At least 36 people, including children, have died after Syrian army helicopters dropped improvised “barrel bombs” on the northern city of Aleppo, opposition activists say.
After Islamist fighters seize Western-backed rebel weapons warehouses, the United States and Britain suspend non-lethal aid to northern Syria.
The French president Francois Hollande announces that an operation to protect civilians in the violence-torn Central African Republic will begin within hours.
The nuclear deal is just a start of what could become a major shift in alliances in the Middle East. What happened in Geneva may have huge ramifications in Damascus and beyond.