Tag: Syria’s bloody civil war

World powers meet to save Syria peace hopes

by Dave Clark VIENNA , Austria (AFP) — Senior envoys from world and regional powers are to meet once again in Vienna on Tuesday in an effort to salvage stumbling efforts to halt Syria’s bloody civil war. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov — diplomacy’s odd couple, at loggerheads over much else in the world — will chair the meeting. At the gathering, the 17-nation International Syria Support Group […]