US-Russia Talks Over Syria End Without Breakthrough

UN envoy mediated

International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi and envoys from Russia and the United States—backers of opposing sides in Syria's civil war—failed to make a breakthrough in talks on Friday seeking a political solution to the conflict.

"We stressed again that in our view there was no military solution to this conflict," Brahimi said in a joint statement read out after his closed-door talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.