Syrian National Coalition chief Khaled Khoja says
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
's government is responsible for Syria's conflict, now in its fifth year. The civil war has killed at least 220,000 people.
Khoja spoke to news hounds Monday together with Louay Hussein, longtime Syria-based opposition activist and leader of Building the Syrian State party. Hussein recently fled to
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
Assad's forces have recently suffered a string of defeats in northern and southern Syria.
U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura last Tuesday launched the consultations in the hopes of restarting peace talks. Two past rounds of direct negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition failed in early 2014.