Bashar Assad (Image by FreedomHouse) Details DMCA | A Syrian opposition group announced Saturday it will attend a proposed peace conference in Moscow later this month, further highlighting the splits between those opposing President Bashar Assad's government amid the country's grinding civil war. The fractured opposition's opposing decisions make it unclear whether anything will come of the Russian proposal to hold talks after Jan. 20. Assad's government had said it is prepared to participate. Russia is a staunch ally of Assad. |