Why Syria Peace Conference Is A Tough Sell For Kerry: Assad Wants To Come -- Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor
Secretary Kerry is traveling to London to boost support for a Syria peace conference. Rebels view Assad's intentions with suspicion, but the US hopes to find support among the many opposition groups.
With the Syrian civil war stuck in a bloody stalemate, Secretary of State John Kerry travels to London Tuesday to try to advance the convening of an international peace conference aimed at replacing the fighting with a political transition.
Yet while Secretary Kerry has recently called such a conference “urgent” for halting a conflict that has left more than 110,000 Syrians dead and several million more either homeless or stranded outside the country as refugees, much of the Syrian opposition that the US sides with views the conference as capitulation to an ascendant Bashar al-Assad.
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