Syria Opposition Seeks Rebel Backing for Geneva Talks

Syria's main Western-backed opposition coalition has announced it will not attend proposed peace talks in Geneva unless it receives the backing of rebels on the ground. Syrian National Coalition spokesman Khaled Saleh, speaking to reporters on the second day of an SNC meeting in Istanbul Sunday, said an opposition delegation will hold meetings in Syria with different brigades from the rebel Free Syrian Army in the coming days. Saleh said if the SNC "is going to be in Geneva,...

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