Member of the Syrian Coalition of Hadi al-Bahra said that the plan put forward by the UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura needs to be discussed in more detail, pointing out that halting the bombardment must include all Syrian cities and not just Aleppo.
Khaled Khoja, president of the Syrian Coalition, said earlier that Russia, Assad’s staunchest ally, is still insisting on keeping him in power through its so-called initiatives aimed at reaching a settlement for the conflict. “In its current form, Russia’s so-called initiative will surely not be accepted by the Syrian people,” Khoja stresses. He attributes ISIS’s surge in the region to the “reluctance of the friends of the Syrian people to stop Assad’s killing machine, especially the failure to supply the FSA with advanced weapons needed to counter regime forces.” (Source: Syrian Coalition + Source: Coalition + Arabic)