Syrian peace talks will fail if more countries join fighting: UN’s Ban

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that the Syrian peace talks and other efforts for a political and diplomatic solution to the five-year-old war will be in jeopardy if fighting escalates and more countries join the fighting. He made the comments in a 14-page report to to the UN Security Council in which he repeated his call for the council to refer the crisis to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, describing the actions of the Syrian regime as war crimes.