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Obama pledges diplomacy with Iran, but he and Rouhani don’t meet

YoopyaSep 25, 2013March 31, 20240

(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday cautiously embraced overtures from Iran’s new president as the basis for a possible nuclear deal, but a failed effort

Russia’s Putin says Syria violence could hit ex-Soviet bloc

YoopyaSep 23, 2013April 13, 20240

(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin warned ex-Soviet allies on Monday that Islamist militancy fuelling the war in Syria could reach their countries, some of

Chemical weapons deal wins time for Syria’s Assad but at a cost

YoopyaSep 16, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons bargain with Russia and the United States offers another political and military lifeline to the Syrian president, just two years after

Kerry, Lavrov meet U.N. envoy on Syria

YoopyaSep 13, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met the United Nations special envoy on Syria in Geneva on Friday as

U.N. report on Syria chemical attack “probably” out Monday, says France

YoopyaSep 12, 2013April 3, 20240

(Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Thursday that UN inspectors who investigated an August 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria would “probably” publish their

U.S. warns diplomatic solution for Syria will take time

YoopyaSep 12, 2013April 3, 20240

(Reuters) – The White House warned on Wednesday that a diplomatic solution over Syria would take “some time” and pledged to pursue talks despite skepticism from U.S.

Iran’s Khamenei hopeful new U.S. policy on Syria is ‘serious’

YoopyaSep 11, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Wednesday he hoped that a U.S. promise to pursue diplomacy to remove the threat of

Obama to explore diplomatic route on Syria chemical weapons

YoopyaSep 11, 2013April 3, 20240

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama pledged on Tuesday to explore a diplomatic plan from Russia to take away Syria’s chemical weapons, but voiced skepticism about it and

Obama says Russian proposal on Syria a potential ‘breakthrough’

YoopyaSep 10, 2013April 3, 20240

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama, seeking to boost support for military action against Syria, said on Monday that Russia’s offer to work with Damascus to put its

Syria’s Assad denies chemical weapons use; U.S. presses case for strike

YoopyaSep 9, 2013April 3, 20240

(Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied that he was behind a chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people, as the White House on Sunday