Syrian men walk at a street between destroyed buildings where triple bombs rocked at the Saadallah al-Jabri square, in Aleppo city, Syria. (Photo: AP)
BEIRUT -- The Syrian government says the international envoy's
call for a holiday cease-fire is pointless because the rebels have no
unified leadership to sign it.
Lakhdar Brahimi asked Iranian officials to help broker a truce during the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha later this month.
Syria's
state-run Al-Thawra newspaper said Wednesday that the biggest obstacle
to the truce was the lack of an authority to sign for the rebels.
The
scores of brigades fighting to topple the regime of President Bashar
Assad have no unified leadership, and many don't communicate with each
other.
Brahimi, the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy, arrived in
Beirut Wednesday for talks with Lebanese officials on how to resolve the
crisis.
Activists say more than 33,000 have been killed in 19 months of violence in Syria.
Associated Press