The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen urged all parties involved to maintain a credible and effective political transition process in Syria while speaking at a press briefing in Damascus Wednesday.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Mazloum Abdi, commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on Friday welcomed recent remarks from the United Nations envoy to Syria supporting talks between the SDF and the new administration in Damascus.

A United Nations official called for all parties in Syria to cooperate without “unhelpful rhetoric” as talks continue between the Kurds in northeast Syria (Rojava) and the new leadership in Damascus.

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday his country is ready to welcome UN forces into the UN established buffer zone with Israel.

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong civil war, now that former leader Bashar Assad has been ousted and sent into e

I can only hope from the bottom of my heart that this is a lesson for the world that we must never allow such cruelties to happen again,’ Volker Turk says in video message from Sednaya Prison - Anadol

Commissioner Hanny Megally says there is marked improvement in evidence protection at detention centers and mass grave sites, essential for future investigations - Anadolu Ajansı

Syria's defence minister said Wednesday that Damascus was open to talks with Kurdish-led forces on their integration into the national army but stood ready to use force should negotiations fail."The door to negotiation with the (Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces) is currently open,

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Wednesday for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ensure justice for crimes committed over the past five decades of iron-fisted rule by the Assad family.

The new leadership of Syria is ready to accept a United Nations peacekeeping contingent, which will be deployed on the border with Israel.Syria's de facto

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Syria's interim Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani told the World Economic Forum in Davos that his country offered