A number of high-profile members of Syrian rebel factions have announced that they won’t be attending the Moscow peace talks scheduled for later this month, meaning the meeting will essentially not include anyone of note from the opposition side.
Opposition figures in Istanbul had initially expressed interest in the program, but disputes over the Syrian government being allowed to hand-pick which people got invites led to a backlash.
Still, from a negotiated settlement, the Moscow talks were the only game in town, with nobody else even attempting to put together significant meetings of this site in many months, and no sign of any others going forward.
The UN had previously organized some previous negotiations also aimed at a settlement, but never invited the Islamist factions to the talks, meaning that the moderate rebels were similarly in a poor position to reach a deal to end the fighting, since they are smaller groups to begin with and couldn’t speak for ISIS and the other major factions.
No surprise there, it's not like the rebels, "moderate" or otherwise aren't interested in peace.
Saudi Arabia is the new Russian enemy, these people are feed by Saudi and thousands of prince hanging around in London and Paris, these rebels are the puppet of these people and do what their master orders them. In the other, their rejection attending this meeting means that they are not for peace but rather they are supporting a war which they lost two years ago, a time when they were replaced by the saudis neo islamic barbarians called ISIS. What is no longer there is the "rebels" and their leaders to attend any peace talk with anyone.
Civil War — Where foreign forces can enslave a nation to foreign powers.
Before Empire USA and Saudi Arabia started pouring billion into this Syrian Civil War, it was a relatively peaceful affair, as the moderate rebels represented only the impoverished laboring-class. You know how that goes, if you can’t buy the bombs, well who ever heard of a war without explosions.
So, the world should so boycott Saudi USA that their war of aggression yields more losses then gains, the moderate rebels should have private meetings with the Syrian President and until then, how about we have some nationwide strikes to get our Revolution started on the right track.
For violence begets violence and the richest most violent always win, you know how that goes.
Why are they still called "rebels"? These are Islamic fundamentalists mainly from Iraq, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia. The Syrian fundamentalists are a minority among these fighters.
Doesn't ISIS want to caliphatize the whole region? Not sure one can speak with them or on their behalf.