UN Invite to Iran Throws Syria Talks Into Doubt

The fate of Syria peace talks was in question Monday after the opposition Syrian National Coalition slammed a United Nations decision to invite Iran to the table and said it would not attend. "The Syrian Coalition announces that they will withdraw their attendance in Geneva 2 unless Ban Ki-moon retracts Iran's invitation," National Coalition spokesman Louay Safi said in a Twitter post. The group has given the U.N. until 1900 GMT Monday to withdraw the invitation. The...

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