Visiting United Nations special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen urged the Assad regime on Sunday to rejoin talks to revise the country’s constitution, warning that political dialogue was going “in the wrong direction”. Syria’s war, which began 13 years ago with brutal regime repression of pro-democracy protests, has killed more than 500,000 people, displaced millions and ravaged the country’s economy, infrastructure and industry. Pedersen has been trying to make progress with a so-calledconstitutional committee for Syria to rewrite or amend the war-torn country’s constitution since October 2019,…