Wow... the optics out of Saturday's Syria summit in Istanbul. While it's true there were no major breakthroughs or significant shifts in the Astana process in terms of winding down the seven-year long war to come out of the four-way meeting involving France, Germany,...
![Here’s why Europe went to Istanbul to talk Syria (without the U.S.)](https://sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/offload-wp-files/2018/10/Istanbul-four-way-summit.jpg)