Syria claims America set up 'negative climate' at peace talks

Syria’s foreign minister has accused America of trying to create a “negative climate” at the second round of peace talks as US secretary of state John Kerry blamed “the Assad regime’s obstruction” for making the tense dialogue even more difficult.

Walid al-Moallem spoke out a day after the meetings in Geneva, Switzerland, between Syrian president Bashar Assad’s government and the opposition seeking his removal ended without finding a way of breaking the impasse in the nearly three-year-old conflict.