Syria has a good chance of reaching a political solution to the devastating war that has been going on for eight years, after a ceasefire led to calm in most parts of the country, the head of the Syrian opposition negotiating body said.
"I think we have an opportunity now, because in almost all of Syria there is a cease-fire in the north-east and north of Syria, and counterterrorism efforts have achieved good results," Hariri said in an interview with Reuters.
"Now is the time to invest all these developments, namely the ceasefire, the fight against terrorism and the belief of the majority of the Syrian people that the only solution to the Syrian crisis is the political solution."
Hariri heads the opposition delegation in the UN-sponsored peace talks, and his latest comments came after he met with the new UN envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen.
The meeting in Riyadh, between Pedersen and Nasr Hariri, focused on all points to find a political solution to end the Syrian crisis, and the negotiating body confirmed that it will continue to coordinate positively with the new envoy.
Hariri said in other statements to «AFP», that the absence of international will prevented the success of the United Nations in pushing the political process and currently suffering «paralysis», according to his description.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he hoped President Donald Trump would slow down the US pullout from Syria until he destroys a hawkish organization. He said he believed Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Danford, Protect the Syrian Kurdish people away from Turkey.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (QD) said in a statement yesterday that it had arrested two members of the organization calling, carrying US citizenship, during operations against the organization in the province of Deir al-Zour, and vowed "Thursday" to step up attacks on the remnants of «Daash», And its cells, a day after a bomb attack that killed four Americans in the city of Manbj in northern Syria.
US President Donald Trump, on his way to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to receive the coffins of the four American victims killed in the Manbaj attack, said he would meet the families of the victims to be on their side during the funeral procession.
At least 20 members of the terrorist organization Da'ash were killed yesterday by raids by Iraqi warplanes aimed at the last enclave under the control of the organization in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the shelling targeted the village of Al-Bagouz, Areas of control are advocating in this area.