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Geir O. Pedersen, UN Special Envoy for Syria, speaks during a press conference in Damascus Wednesday Jan. 22, 2025.(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

U.N. envoy says creating an inclusive Syrian government could help lift sanctions

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press

A man walks through a heavily damaged hospital in the city of Afrin, Syria, Sunday, June 13, 2021. Shells have hit the hosptal Saturday, killing at least 13 people, including two medical staff and two ambulance drivers. It was not immediately clear who was behind the shelling, which came from areas where government troops and Kurdish-led fighters are deployed. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

U.N. envoy calls for new international talks on Syrian war

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

UN says international diplomacy crucial to end Syria’s war

By BY EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Divide on Syria again blocks U.N. Security Council action

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 30, 2019 file photo, U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen speaks to journalists following a U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria at U.N. headquarter. Pedersen announced Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, that the next round of talks toward revising the war-battered country's constitution will start in Geneva on Jan. 25 and urged the parties to move to actual drafting. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

UN announces talks on new Syria constitution resume Jan 25

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN hosts latest round of talks on Syria’s constitution

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People attend funeral of fighters killed in an airstrike in the town of Idlib, Syria, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. An airstrike on a rebel training camp in northwestern Syria on Monday killed dozens of Turkish-backed fighters and wounded nearly as many, in one of the heaviest blows to the opposition's strongest groups, a spokesman and a war monitor said. (AP Photo)

US accuses Syria of delaying constitution ahead of election

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians in a pickup with their belongings, as they flee fighting in the villages of Jabal al-Zawiya, Syria, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Syrian activists and a war monitoring group say that dozens of suspected Russian airstrikes have pounded villages on the edge of the last rebel enclave in northwestern Syria, sending thousands of civilians fleeing. The escalation began on Monday and is the most serious breach of a Russia-Turkey brokered cease-fire in place since March. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

UN: Committee drafting new Syria constitution meets Aug. 24

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN: No new meeting yet on drafting new Syria constitution

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In this photo taken on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, A huge portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad is set in Old Market district, Aleppo, Syria. More than eight years of fighting has left many sections of Aleppo destroyed, and now authorities are pleading for international organisations to help fund restoration of the ancient city. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

UN envoy says Syria charter-drafting panel a ‘sign of hope’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

This photo released Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019 by the opposition Syrian Civil Defense rescue group, also known as White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a civil defense worker cuting metal to reach survivors after airstrikes hit the northern town of Maaret al-Numan, in Idlib province, Syria. Idlib is the Syrian opposition's final stronghold. The opposition Syrian Civil Defense group of first responders said airstrikes on Maaret al-Numan on Wednesday killed 12 people and wounded 34. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

UN envoy hopes for Syria constitution committee next month

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 30, 2019 file photo, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen gestures as he speaks to the media following a U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria at U.N. headquarter. Pedersen is reporting “solid progress” following talks with officials in the Syrian capital and says they are “very close to an agreement” on establishing a constitutional committee. Geir Pedersen spoke to reporters Wednesday, July 10, 2019, following two meetings with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem in Damascus. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

UN envoy speaks of ‘solid progress’ after meetings in Syria

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, center, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, second from right, enter a hall during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 5, 2019. Pedersen voiced hope that cooperation between Russia and Turkey will help stabilize the situation in Syria's northwestern provice of Idlib. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

UN envoy arrives in Syria amid violent clashes in the north

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Geir Pedersen, The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, speaks during a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

UN envoy wants action on Syria’s missing, new constitution

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

New UN envoy makes first visit to Syria since appointment

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UN chief announces new Syrian envoy _ Norway’s Geir Pedersen

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN chief to appoint Norway’s Geir Pedersen as Syria envoy

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