U.N. Syria envoy tests waters with opposition over Assad fate

By John Irish GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nation's envoy to Syria sounded out the opposition at talks in Geneva on the idea that President Bashar al-Assad could stay on in power symbolically, two opposition sources said on Saturday, but they both had summarily dismissed it. U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura reconvened indirect talks on Wednesday saying a political transition would be the main focus of the current round of the peace talks, which aim to end Syria's five-year-old war. Just a few d