ISTANBUL: The divided Syrian opposition will meet on Friday in Istanbul to decide whether to join next week’s landmark peace talks, as its Arab and Western allies ratchet up the pressure for it to attend.

On the eve of the National Coalition’s meeting, United States Secretary of State John Kerry made a powerful plea to the exiled group to decide in favor of the talks to be held in Switzerland on January 22.

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