Syria's Assad Meets UN Envoy

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is warning the U.N.-Arab League envoy that proposed peace talks can only succeed if other countries end their support for rebel groups. Mr. Assad was quoted on state-run television following a brief meeting Wednesday morning with Lakhdar Brahimi. The meeting came on the third day of Brahimi's first visit to Damascus in almost a year. The U.N. envoy has been on a regional tour trying to drum up support for the so-called "Geneva 2" peace ...

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