Syrian peace talks stuck over Assad’s future


January 22, 2014 at 1:18p.m.

Syrian peace talks stuck over Assad’s future

MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) — Peace talks to carve a path out of Syria’s civil war got off to a rocky start today as a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad’s future threatened to collapse the negotiations even before they had begun. The dispute over Assad cast a pall over an international conference that aims to map out a transitional government and ultimately a democratic election for the country mired in fighting that has killed more than 130,000 people and displaced millions.