Report: US Waiting for "Green Light" for Assad Talks

An Arab paper in London, Al Rai El-Youm, reports that the US is waiting for the Syrian OK to open up secret back channel talks with the Bashar Assad's government in Syria, according to Israel IBA news.

The US is waiting for the "green light" from the Syrians, at which point they'll send a delegation to Damascus.

Last week US Secretary of State Kerry said that in the end the US will have to talk with Assad. The State Department later corrected that statement and said Kerry meant not with Assad himself, but with other officials in his government.