Syrian FM says no talks with main opposition group

Syria's foreign minister says the main Western-backed opposition group should not take part in a future peace conference because it had overwhelmingly supported a U.S. strike against Damascus over an attack last month in which chemical weapons were used.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem told the Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV late Sunday that the Syrian National Coalition "is not popular in Syria and lost a lot among Syrians when it called on the US to attack Syria militarily, meaning that it called for attacking the Syrian people." (AP)