In this Friday, May 30, 2014, photo provided by an anti-Bashar Assad activist group Edlib News Network (ENN), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, protestors who oppose Syrian President Bashar Assad carry a banner during a demonstration at Kafr Nabil town in Idlib province, northern Syria. The country holds its first multi-candidate presidential election in nearly half a century on Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Despite government assertions the election could resolve the three-year civil war, there's no indication it will halt the violence or mend a bitterly divided nation. AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN
GENEVA–President Bashar al-Assad and his family have no role in the future of Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Oct. 26 ahead of peace talks aiming at a political transition scheduled to resume next month.
Tillerson said that the Trump administration backed the Geneva peace talks as the only way to end the more than six-year-old war and move to a political transition and elections.
