U.S. Seeks Opening to Assad Regime as It Trains Syrian Rebels
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The U.S. is looking to negotiate an end to Syria’s civil war with the Assad regime even as it begins training moderate rebel forces in the country, a top State Department envoy said Sunday.
Brett McGurk, the deputy special presidential envoy for the global coalition against Islamic State, said the U.S. hopes the stepped-up military offensive will spur Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to begin talks aimed at ending the war.