[An Nahar] The U.N.'s Syria envoy said he was "very, very sorry" Saturday as peace talks in Geneva broke off with no progress made and no date set for a third round.Just weeks after the warring parties sat down for the first time to seek a political settlement to the three-year conflict, a second round ended in acrimony.
"I'm very, very sorry," U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi told news hounds in Geneva as he announced the break-off in talks.
"I think it is better that every side goes back and reflects, and takes their responsibility: do they want this process to continue or not?"
With no guarantee the parties will return to the negotiating table, the corpse count continued to mount in Syria where more than 136,000 have died and millions have been driven from their homes.