TRUCE? Syrian Government And Opposition To Hold Peace Talks For First Time since Civil War

Children killed by the Syrian government in a chemical weapons attack two months ago being buried

The Syrian government and opposition will hold peace talks in January. This will be the first meeting of the parties since the civil war started in 2011.

Announcing the date, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the warring sides would finally meet for the long-elusive Geneva II peace negotiations which repeatedly have been postponed.The civil war has left more than 120,000 dead. More than two million people have fled Syria in the neighboring states.The development was announced Monday by the United Nations (UN). The talks sponsored by the UN to be held in Geneva on January 22, 2014.

    "The conflict in Syria has raged for too long. It would be unforgivable not to seize this opportunity to bring
an end to the suffering and destruction it has caused," he said.

The international community has struggled to broker talks between the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the rebels battling him since the beginning of the bloody conflict.

The so-called Geneva II conference is meant as a follow-up to one held in June 2012, where world powers issued a call for a Syrian transition government.

But Syria's warring sides failed to agree on whether Assad or his inner circle could play a role in the process, and amid spiralling fighting plans for Geneva II have repeatedly been put on hold.

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