Syrian Conflict 'in many Ways out of Control', Kerry Warns
Syria's civil war is "in many ways out of control" U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Monday, vowing to work hard in the "coming hours" to salvage a tattered truce.
Speaking after talks with U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura, Kerry said he would call his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov later Monday to press for the ceasefire to be restored.
But, in some of his most downbeat comments yet on the effort to end the deadly five-year-old conflict, Kerry warned that he did not want to promise success.
Standing by de Mistura, he thanked him for supporting a political process in the midst of "a conflict that is in may ways out of control and deeply disturbing to everybody in the world, I hope."
Kerry said a ceasefire mediated by Russia and the United States in February was still holding in parts of the country, but he singled out the situation in Aleppo.
There, he said, Bashar Assad's regime had deliberately targeted three clinics and a major hospital, killing doctors and patients and threatening the truce.
"The attack on this hospital is unconscionable," he said. "And it has to stop."
03 May 2016, 01:18
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1. Indict Assad for war crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity;
2. US Special Forces storm wherever Assad is located, extract him from Syria and deliver him to the ICC in The Hague;
3. AN alternative commander of the Syrian Armed Forces is named as head of the Army and Interim President;
4. The FSA and elements from other fighting forces that deserted from the Syrian Armed Forces refusing to be a part of the Assad Regime should be welcomed back into the Army;
5. THe Syrian Army, intelligence services and internal security forces remain in tact, under new leadership and form the "boots on the ground" essential to subdue ISIL and other insurgencies;
6. The US, KSA, Russia and Turkey provide supplemental sir support with the Syrian Army under new leadership to defeat ISIL.
PRoblem solved!
