John Kerry: U.S. could negotiate with Syria's Assad

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Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. may need to negotiate with Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad to end the nation's four-year-old civil war.

"We have to negotiate in the end," Kerry said in an interview with CBS that aired Sunday. "We've always been willing to negotiate in the context of the Geneva I process."

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.