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Blast Kills 31 in Syria

Clouds over peace talks

Rifts in opposition dim prospect

AFP, Damascus
Syrian peace talks could be held November 23, but not without "credible opposition" participation, top diplomats said yesterday, as a truck bomb in central Syria killed more than 30 people.
After a meeting with UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, the pointman for international efforts to end Syria's nearly three-year civil war,
Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said the so-called Geneva 2 talks would be held November 23.
But Brahimi, speaking to reporters in Cairo, cautioned that the meeting would not be convened without a "credible opposition representing an important segment of the Syrian people" opposed to President Bashar al-Assad.
A truck bomb meanwhile struck in the government-controlled city of
Hama, killing at least 31 people, the day after a major assault involving a suicide car bomb killed 16 soldiers in a key Damascus suburb and kicked off several hours of fierce clashes.
The mixed messages about the so-called Geneva meeting reflected concerns that the increasingly divided opposition would refuse to take part in talks with Assad's regime, which insists his resignation is not on the table. The renewed push for peace talks comes after a rare US-Russian accord compelled Syria to agree to destroy its chemical arsenal this month, but much of the opposition panned the deal because it averted punitive US strikes on the regime.
The main National Coalition opposition bloc said members will decide in the coming days whether to attend the Geneva talks, while the Syrian National Council, a key coalition member, has threatened to quit if they do.
The rift among the exiled opposition comes amid a surge in fighting among rebels on the ground, with the mainstream Free Syrian Army (FSA) clashing with the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
US Secretary of State John Kerry will head to Britain to attend a "Friends of Syria” meeting tomorrow in which Western and
Arab governments are expected to press the opposition to come together and attend the talks.
But even if the National Coalition attends the Geneva meeting, it is unclear whether it can enforce any agreement on the ground, after 13 prominent rebel brigades rejected the umbrella group last month.
Meanwhile, rebels carried out a second major suicide bombing in as many days, this time in the Orontes Valley city of Hama, the site of a 1982 massacre of some 10,000 to 40,000 people ordered by president Hafez al-Assad during a crackdown on an earlier revolt.
The number of victims is expected to rise, "as there are dozens of wounded, some of them in critical condition," added the Britain-based group, which relies on a network of activists and medics across the war-torn country.