Backers of the Syrian uprising were to meet in Amman with the opposition on Wednesday to discuss a US-Russian proposal for peace talks, as the two-year conflict escalated close to the border with lebanon.
“Today’s effort ... Is part of a political path aimed at ending the violence and bloodshed,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh told a joint news conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague before the meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria group. AFP