Asaad Al-Zoubi (R), head of the Syrian opposition delegation, and Salim al-Muslat (2nd R), spokesman for the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), attend peace talks with U.N. mediator for Syria Staffan de Mistura (2nd L) at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, February 1, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
New York Times: Syria Talks Take Tentative Step Forward Despite New Attacks
GENEVA — The United Nations mediator in the war in Syria met on Monday in Geneva with members of the opposition, as deaths from a suicide attack on a Shiite shrine in a government-controlled territory escalated sharply.
Opposition members said the meeting with the mediator, Staffan de Mistura, lasted nearly two hours and they had received a “positive response” from him to their demands in creating the basis for talks with the Syrian government: a release of political prisoners, the lifting of sieges on insurgent-held areas, and a halt to airstrikes.
As a first step, they presented Mr. de Mistura with a list of 300 people, all women and children, whom they described as political prisoners of the forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
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They have women and children as "political prisoners?" And they are treated as honorable men? I say castrate 'em and turn 'em loose.
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