| No point in negotiating until the fighting reveals the final winner. |
Speaking to news hounds after a meeting with opposition leaders, Staffan de Mistura insisted "this is not the end, and it is not the failure of the talks."
De Mistura said both sides were "interested in having the political process started," and that he had set a new date of Feb. 25 for the resumption of the talks.
The announcement comes just two days after de Mistura opened the first talks in two years aimed at ending a five-year war that has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced an estimated 11 million people.
Syrian forces backed by Russian
Syria's state news agency SANA says rebels have fired several rockets at residential areas in the southern city of Daraa, killing 10 civilians and wounding 41, most of them women and kiddies.
Daraa is contested, with parts of it held by forces loyal to
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
and others by members of armed opposition groups trying to overthrow him. The rockets hit government-held areas.
The news agency says that in a separate attack Wednesday, rebels fired several rockets and mortar shells at the Harasta suburb of the capital, Damascus. It says one shell slammed into a high school, wounding three staff members.