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Former United States Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford at the International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria at Bayan Palace on the outskirts of Kuwait City January 30, 2013. (Reuters/Stephanie McGehee)


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A Syrian refugee waves a revolutionary flag during a protest against any concessions his country’s opposition may make to the Syrian government at the Geneva peace talks at Zaatari camp in Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)


Opinion: Geneva III is also doomed

Opinion: Geneva III is also doomed

If a third Syrian–Syrian meeting is to be held in Geneva—whether over the next few months months or years from now—the likelihood is that it would end like its predecessors did in June 2012 and January and February 2014. I’m sorry, but there is no escaping this...
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Haitham Al-Maleh, senior member of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), Syria’s main political opposition group, leaves a meeting with UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)


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UN–Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi is pictured during a press conference in the context of the second round of negotiations between the Syrian government and the opposition at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 15, 2014. (EPA/SALVATORE DI NOLFI)


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epa04076925 Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Meqdad speaks to the media during a news conference in the context of the second round of negotiations between the Syrian government and the opposition, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, 14 February 2014. A second round of Syrian peace talks have reached a dead end, an opposition delegate said 14 February after a day of separate meetings between each side and UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. EPA/SALVATORE DI NOLFI