Lakhdar Brahimi

Syrian peace envoy expected to quit mission impossible

6 May 2013

Veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, has insisted throughout his career that there is no "hopeless situation", but he has not managed to find a magical...

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Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is a pawn of the West, Syrian media say

11 Jan 2013

Syrian media lashed out yesterday at peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, accusing him of being a "pawn" of the West after he criticised a plan by President Bashar al-Assad to solve the 21-month conflict...

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Assad plan ‘detached from reality’, US says

7 Jan 2013

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s road map to end the civil war ravaging his country is “detached from reality” and he should step down, the US State Department said on Sunday.

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Briefs, December 31, 2012

31 Dec 2012

Brahimi touts plan for peace in Syria

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Peace envoy urges China to help resolve crisis in Syria

1 Nov 2012

UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi yesterday urged greater involvement by China in a bid to end the violence in Syria as he met Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Beijing.

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Envoy urges China to play ‘active role’ in Syria crisis

31 Oct 2012

UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said on Wednesday he hoped China would play an active role in helping end the violence in Syria as he met Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Beijing.

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Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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Syrian jets hit targets inside Damascus for first time

A Syrian air force general was assassinated in Damascus as a Syrian fighter jet reportedly hit targets inside the capital for the first time.

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Syrian jets hit targets inside Damascus for first time

A Syrian air force general was assassinated in Damascus as a Syrian fighter jet reportedly hit targets inside the capital for the first time.

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Air raids, bombs rock Damascus after truce failure

Explosions shook Syria’s capital on Monday as warplanes launched their heaviest air raids yet and two car bombs struck, with the UN-Arab League peace envoy saying the conflict was going from bad...

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SYRIA

Damascus car bombing shatters four-day ceasefire

Five people were killed and 32 wounded in a car bomb attack in southern Damascus on Friday, Syrian state television said.

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SYRIA

Clashes threaten fragile ceasefire in Syria

Outbursts of fighting threatened to undermine a fragile ceasefire that took effect in Syria on Friday after Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the main rebel force agreed to down arms.

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Syrian army says to halt operations from Friday morning

The Syrian military has agreed to halt military operations from Friday morning for the Muslim holiday weekend but reserves the right to respond to rebel attacks, the army announced.

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