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Ban opens Syrian peace talks, urges all sides to seize ‘historic’ opportunity to end bloodshed

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses High-level Segment of the UN peace conference on Syria in Montreux,...

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Assad Focuses on Fighting Terrorism, Not Power-Sharing, at Talks

Syrian peace talks are scheduled to start Wednesday in Switzerland, nearly three years after the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The government in Damascus is rejecting calls that it share power, saying these talks should be...

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Pakistan Military Airstrikes Target Militants

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Map of Pakistan shows the location of Mir Ali in the...

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On eve of Syria peace conference, Ban holds intensive talks with participants

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Thousands of Syrians stream across the border into Iraq in search of shelter.

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