After the Iran Deal, Can P5+1 Tackle Syria Civil War? - U.S. News & World Report

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, third from right, stands with foreign secretaries of the P5+1 group before a meeting in 2013, in New York City.

NEW YORK — Even as Russia’s entry this week into an air campaign in Syria cast a shadow over diplomatic proceedings at the 70th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly, some global players — boosted by the rare diplomatic success of the Iran nuclear deal reached in July — are looking to the international group that negotiated it as a possible format to ramp up diplomacy to try to find a way out of the Syrian civil war.

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