Syria peace talks will continue next week despite the opposition’s decision to quit them, the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura said Thursday, according to Reuters.
De Mistura, speaking to the French-language Radio Television Suisse (RTS), said 400,000 people had been killed in the five-year-old war, far higher than the previous UN toll which has varied from 250,000 to 300,000.
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