The European Union will continue to examine possible further suspensions of sanctions against Syria while closely monitoring the situation in the country, EU leaders said on Thursday.The EU leaders condemned the recent violence in Syria and urged Syrian leaders "to ensure the protection of all civilians."

EU leaders on Thursday said on Thursday that they deplore the breakdown of the ceasefire in Gaza and Hamas' refusal to hand over remaining hostages."The European Council deplores the breakdown of the ceasefire in Gaza, which has caused a large number of civilian casualties in recent air strikes. It deplores the refusal of Hamas to hand over the remaining hostages," it said in a statement.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he spoke with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and that the two leaders condemned the resumption of Israeli strikes on Gaza.Macron said they will co-chair a conference on a two-state solution, aimed at "helping revive a political perspective for both Israelis and Palestinians."Macron also said he welcomed the crown prince's Jeddah initiative, which enabled the start of peace negotiations in Ukraine.

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Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), wrote on his official X/Twitter on Thursday that five UNRWA staff members have been killed in Israeli military operations since Tuesday morning's conflict escalation.Lazzarini claimed that "They were teachers, doctors, and nurses: serving the most vulnerable."Israel, since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war after the October 7 massacre, had refuted the innocence of several UNRWA staff members by providing evidence of their ties with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other Gazan terror groups.#Gaza: Israeli Forces bombardment continues from air & sea for the third day. We are fearing that the worst is yet to come given the ongoing ground invasion separating the north from the south. Evacuation orders forcing people to flee were issued impacting tens of thousands of…— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) March 20, 2025

The next round of US-Russia talks will take place on March 24 in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and at an expert level, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Thursday.The Russian delegation will be led by Grigory Karasin, the head of the international affairs committee in Russia's upper house of parliament, and Sergei Beseda, an adviser to the head of Russia's FSB security service, Ushakov said in a statement.

The Taliban on Thursday freed an American citizen who had been detained in Afghanistan for more than two years, following talks between U.S. hostage envoy Adam Boehler and Taliban officials in Kabul, a source briefed on the release told Reuters.George Glezmann, who was detained in 2022 while visiting Kabul as a tourist, left Afghanistan on a Qatari aircraft on Thursday evening bound for Qatar, the source said.Glezmann and Boehler are expected to travel on to the United States, the source added.