GENEVA (Reuters) - International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, trying to halt the bloodshed in Syria, met senior U.S. and Russian officials in Geneva on Friday, but prospects for a breakthrough were dim.
Brahimi held separate talks with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, whose governments back opposing sides in Syria's 21-month-old conflict, at the United Nations' European headquarters. All three then met together behind closed doors.
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