UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Syria has expressed regret that talks between the government and opposition scheduled to start on July 25 in Geneva “are no longer possible,” reportedly because President Bashir Assad’s government contends that Switzerland is not neutral...

By Ibrahim Hamidi  Damascus has informed United Nations envoy Geir Pedersen that it would not send its delegation to Geneva to participate in the ninth round of the Constitutional Committee on July 25, which means freezing the Syrian political process that is held under the auspices of...

The Turkish foreign ministry has slammed informal proposals to deport UK asylum seekers to Turkey. UK foreign minister Liz Truss had told MPs in private this weekend that she would like to open negotiations with Turkey and other states to send undocumented migrants who arrive in the UK,...

The number of asylum applications increased in the regions of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany during the first half of 2022, according to the local Welt newspaper. The newspaper stated in a report that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees registered 16,067 applications from...