{"id":22420,"date":"2018-11-19T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22420"},"modified":"2018-11-19T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T18:22:08","slug":"turkey-russia-iran-to-hold-syria-talks-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22420","title":{"rendered":"Turkey, Russia, Iran to hold Syria talks next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1407396\/middle-east\" readability=\"48\">\n<p>\nASTANA: Russia, Iran and Turkey will hold the next round of talks on Syria&#8217;s conflict on November 28-29 in the Kazakh capital Astana, Kazakhstan&#8217;s foreign minister said on Monday.<br \/>&#8220;The participants plan to discuss the current situation in Syria, in particular in Idlib, creating conditions for the return of refugees and internally displaced people, and post-conflict reconstruction,&#8221; Kairat Abdrakhmanov said in Astana.<br \/>The meeting will be the 11th in the Astana peace process &#8212; set up in early 2017 by Russia and Iran, who support President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s regime in Syria, and opposition backer Turkey.<br \/>Abdrakhmanov said representatives of Damascus and armed opposition groups would take part, but did not specify what level of officials from Russia, Iran and Turkey would attend.<br \/>The Astana process was launched after Russia&#8217;s military intervention in Syria tipped the balance in the regime&#8217;s favour. It has gradually eclipsed an earlier UN-sponsored negotiations framework known as the Geneva process.<br \/>This month&#8217;s meeting comes with continued violence threatening plans for a buffer zone around Idlib, the last major opposition stronghold in Syria.<br \/>Russia and Turkey agreed in September to set up the buffer zone to avert a Syrian regime offensive, but jihadists who hold around 70 percent of the area have refused to withdraw.<br \/>Fighting in the area has continued, with jihadists on Friday killing 22 regime fighters in an attack on government forces in the northwest of Hama province near the planned zone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASTANA: Russia, Iran and Turkey will hold the next round of talks on Syria&#8217;s conflict on November 28-29 in the Kazakh capital Astana, Kazakhstan&#8217;s foreign minister said on Monday.&#8221;The participants plan to discuss the current situation in Syria, in particular in Idlib, creating conditions for the return of refugees and internally displaced people, and post-conflict&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}