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As the UN-led peace talks between the Yemeni government and the Houthis in Kuwait are expected to announce, before the end of the week, a plan geared towards ending the war, the two warring parties exchanged prisoners in Taiz over Read more
UN special envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed called on politicians to refrain from politicizing the discussions for the release of detainees underlining that “this issue is humanitarian in the first place and should not be politicized” as he Read more
Basma Kodmani, a delegate of the Riyadh-based High Negotiations Committee (HNC) composed of Syrian opposition groups, said Coordinator Riad Hijab of the HNC has addressed a letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling for a truce during Ramadan. Read more
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, UN’s special envoy for Yemen, said talks being held in Kuwait are progressing but underlined that reaching an agreement for a sustainable and inclusive settlement cannot be reached overnight. He said “there is no time limit” Read more
UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, briefed the UN Security Council in a closed-door video conference on Thursday on the situation in Syria and a statement from his office said Syrian peace talks will resume before August 1, Read more
Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called for the temporal suspension of the weekly Friday protests by followers of influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to enable the military to focus on liberating Fallujah. “We ask our dear young people to postpone Read more
The delegation of the Yemeni government has withdrawn from the UN-led talks with the Houhti Movement in Kuwait and blamed the latter for time wasting. Foreign minister and head of the delegation, Abdulmalek al-Mikhlafi, tweeted that the rebels “torpedoed the Read more
The Vienna conference held on Monday with the participation of the permanent members of the Security Council and several Arab and European countries decided that the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) should be exempted from the UN arms embargo Read more
The United States on Friday blacklisted the Head of Libya’s internationally recognized Parliament for obstructing the political process aimed at establishing the UN-sponsored Government of National Accord (GNA) as the sole Libyan authority. Aguila Saleh, identified as a spoiler of Read more
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls is set to visit Israel and Palestinian West Bank this month, in a bid to relaunch the dead peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis. Manuel Valls will be in the region from 21 to 24 Read more