On this edition of Press Conference USA -- Sectarian and regional tensions stemming from the Syrian conflict are on the rise and threaten to provoke more instability involving Turkey, Russia, Iran, Iraq and other neighboring states. NATO member and regional powerhouse Turkey, is experiencing the brunt of the fallout at great cost to its domestic political and economic situation. Host Carol Castiel and Dakhil Elias of VOA’s Kurdish Service talk with Ambassador James Jeffrey, former US Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey, now a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, about these and other issues as well as what specifically the United States along with a “coalition of the willing” could do, to support the Syrian opposition against the Assad regime, given that Russia and China have blocked forceful UN Security Council resolutions.