Syria rebels, govt invited to talks next week: Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's foreign ministry said today that Syrian government officials and armed rebels are being invited to peace talks to be held February 15 and 16 in its capital Astana.
"It is planned to hold the latest high-level meeting within the Astana process on resolving the situation in Syria on February 15 and 16," the ministry said in a statement.
Those invited include "the Syrian government" and "representatives of the Syrian armed opposition," as well as UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, it added.