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US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) talks to Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (2-L) as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (R) walks past prior to the so-called Geneva II peace talks on Syria, in Montreux, Switzerland, 22 January 2014. The talks brought representatives of the al-Assad regime and the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition together under the same roof for the first time since the conflict started some three years ago. (EPA/ARND WIEGMANN / POOL)
Syrian peace talks stuck over Assad’s future
Montreux, AP—Peace talks to carve a path out of Syria’s civil war got off to a rocky start Wednesday as a bitter clash over President Bashar Al-Assad’s future threatened to collapse the negotiations even before they had begun. The dispute over Assad cast a...Caption:
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during the opening of the Geneva II peace talks in Montreux, Switzerland, on January 22, 2014. (EPA/RAINER JENSEN)
Syria peace conference opens with rifts over Assad
Montreux, Reuters—Syria’s government and its enemies came face to face for the first time on Wednesday at a one-day peace conference in Switzerland which world powers hope can at least start a process to end three years of civil war. There was immediate evidence...Caption:
Ahmed Al-Jarba, president of the Syrian Opposition Coalition, speaks at the Friends of the Syrian People meeting on the sidelines of the 68th United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2013 in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)