Top opposition negotiator quits Syrian peace talks

The talks that began in January have failed to make any progress amid contrary demands by the opposition team and the government delegation.

The opposition has been insisting that the President Bashar Assad and top official in his government have no role in Syria’s future — or even during the transitional period.

Josephine Guerrero, a spokeswoman for U.N. special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said in Geneva that the resignation is an “internal matter for the HNC.”

The province has witnesses some of the worst violence over the past months and has also seen clashes lately between rebels and members of the extremist Islamic State group, which captured several villages last week before losing two of them again on Sunday.