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A French court has issued an international arrest warrant for the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for complicity in war crimes against humanity linked to chemical weapon attacks on civilians.

The Israel-Hamas war is spilling into Syria, fueled by growing instability, violence and a lack of progress toward a political solution to its 12-year conflict, the United Nations special envoy for the country said Monday.

The UN calls for renewed diplomatic efforts to reignite the stalled Syrian peace process, emphasizing the need for substantive engagement and coordination among stakeholders to address the humanitarian crisis and move forward on the path outlined in UNSC Resolution 2254.

As the veteran Turkish ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan once noted: “Success might sometimes only be achieved after many failed attempts … there is no single recipe for successful mediation, just as no conflict is the same as another.”

Kazakhstan will stop hosting talks aimed at resolving the Syrian conflict that erupted 12 years ago, officials have announced, a decision that Russia described as a surprise.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be put on trial following “hundreds of thousands of deaths” and “chemical arms use” during the country’s civil war, the French foreign minister said on Tuesday.

After more than a decade of war in Syria, some of the external powers that fed the conflict with money and arms are in talks to put a permanent end to the fighting.

With Syria at an important juncture due to renewed diplomatic attention in the aftermath of devastating earthquakes, unlocking progress on a political solution requires multiple stakeholders who hold different keys to work together, the UN’s Special Envoy said today during his Security Council briefing.