The objective of US policy toward Syria is to end the Assad regime by means of negotiations conducted in accordance with the provisions of the June 2012 Geneva agreement of the P-5 under the chairmanship of the then UN and Arab League Special Representative, Kofi Annan. Those negotiations would involve the existing Syrian government and the Syrian opposition. Their aim would be to produce a transitional governing body on the basis of mutual consent.
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North Korea is flexing its muscles, again. The UN imposing further sanctions onto North Korea in a (late) response to its December 2012 missile and February 2013 nuclear tests had the regime in Pyongyang go ballistic leading to angry rhetoric and threats to attack the US and its allies with ballistic and nuclear weapons.
To what extent has the French intervention weakened the African Union leadership on the Malian crisis?