UN Envoy Urges Restart of Syrian Peace Process

The U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura is proposing a freeze on fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo as a first step toward re-igniting the failed Syrian peace process. He says it is urgent to take concrete action to end the devastating conflict, which is now in its fourth year. Nearly one year ago, the Geneva II Peace Conference on Syria collapsed, dashing hopes for a political settlement to end that country’s three-year-old civil war. Since then, the ever-worsening...

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