{"id":675,"date":"2017-09-01T18:47:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T18:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/?p=675"},"modified":"2017-09-01T18:47:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T18:47:49","slug":"next-round-of-syria-peace-talks-set-for-sept-14-15-in-astana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/next-round-of-syria-peace-talks-set-for-sept-14-15-in-astana\/","title":{"rendered":"Next round of Syria peace talks set for Sept. 14-15 in Astana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">The next round of negotiations between representatives from the Syrian government and foreign-sponsored armed opposition besides delegates from Iran, Russia, and Turkey as mediators will take place between September 14 and 15 in Kazakhstan.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"104\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\t\u201cAccording to the information from the guarantor states, during the upcoming meeting they plan to review several documents covering the work of de-escalation control forces, and continue work on agreeing the make-up of control forces in Idlib,\u201d the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tThe statement that Iran, Russia and Turkey, which serve as guarantor states in the peace process, plan to map out de-escalation zones in Syria\u2019s militant-held northwestern province of Idlib, the central province of Homs and the\u00a0Eastern Ghouta\u00a0area outside of the capital Damascus, and exchange viewpoints on other matters such as prisoner exchange.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\t\u00a0Kazakhstan\u2019s capital city of Astana\u00a0has hosted five rounds of peace talks for Syria since January.\u00a0The negotiations are aimed at bringing an end to the foreign-backed militancy in the violence-battered Arab country, which began in March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tThe talks in Astana have been going on in tandem with another series of talks, held in Geneva and brokered by the UN.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tUN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura has sought to unify the opposition for a substantive round of negotiations in October, after hosting seven rounds of largely unsuccessful talks in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\t<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">President Assad attends Eid al-Adha prayers in recently-freed town<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tMeanwhile, Syrian President Bashar Assad has traveled to the recently-liberated town of Qarat, located about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Damascus, to participate in prayers for the Eid al-Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice), which marks the culmination of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tLast month, Syrian army soldiers and fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement liberate Qarat during a joint weeklong offensive to oust Daesh Takfiri terrorists from the\u00a0strategic and mountainous region of Qalamoun close to the border with Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\t<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Syrian militants release captured pilot<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tSeparately, foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants have released a Syrian government pilot, whose Soviet-built jet fighter aircraft\u00a0had crashed in the country\u2019s southernmost province of Suwayda, where Syrian government forces, backed by fighters from allied popular defense groups, continue to gain ground\u00a0in their fight against foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tThe so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the pilot, whose identity was not immediately available, was freed on Friday, along with over 30 other captured soldiers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\tOn August 15, a spokesman for Western-backed Jaish\u00a0Osoud al Sharqiya\u00a0militant group alleged that Takfiri terrorists had shot down a Syrian MiG military jet in a desert area near the border with Jordan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n\t\u201cIt was downed in Wadi Mahmoud in eastern Sweida countryside. The wreckage fell in the area and we think the pilot has dropped in a parachute. The search is going on to find him,\u201d Saad al-Haj claimed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi The next round of negotiations between representatives from the Syrian government and foreign-sponsored armed opposition besides delegates from Iran, Russia, and Turkey as mediators will take place between September 14 and 15 in Kazakhstan. \u201cAccording to the information from the guarantor states, during the upcoming meeting they plan to review several documents covering the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[639],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Next round of Syria peace talks set for Sept. 14-15 in Astana - madaresharghi | An Analytical Look at Middle Eastern Developments<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/next-round-of-syria-peace-talks-set-for-sept-14-15-in-astana\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Next round of Syria peace talks set for Sept. 14-15 in Astana - 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