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UN appeals to evacuate 500 urgent cases from rebel-held Syria

The United Nations Thursday appealed for 500 patients, many at risk of death, to be urgently evacuated from Syria's Eastern Ghouta region, one of the last rebel-held strongholds. Jan Egeland, advisor to the UN's special envoy for Syria, told a press conference in Geneva that there are...

Little prospect of Syria peace progress seen in Geneva talks

A breakthrough in U.N.-backed Syria peace talks in Geneva this week seems hardly more likely than in seven failed earlier rounds as President Bashar al-Assad pushes for total military victory and his opponents stick by their demand he leave power. U.N. Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura...