text: Ahead of today's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Susan E. Reed writes that time is running out for the Obama administration to settle Syria. Pictured: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, sits with Staffan de Mistura, UN special envoy for Syria, right, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov of Russia, during the International Syria Support Group meeting Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, in New York. Kerry and Lavrov are set to meet on September 22 to discuss the deteriorating situation in Syria.(Kevin Hagen/AP