WASHINGTON, D.C.: Amid a flurry of moves to organize peace talks to end Syria’s bloody civil war, US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted Bashar al-Assad must step down.

The two met on Thursday in Washington as efforts to bring the Assad regime and the Syrian opposition together at an international conference next month gathered pace.

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