U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were unable to strike a deal for a ceasefire in Syria and differences remain, a senior State Department official said after their meeting in China on Monday. Kerry and Lavrov met on the sidelines of the G20 summit[…]
OPINION by Ibrahim Hewitt While the Guardian’s Simon Jenkins decries the West’s “meddling” in Syria – and suggests that “We must step back” – his humane cri de coeur touches fleetingly on the real problem. “Reality in this part of the world,” writes Jenkins, “is that order and power seem invariably to trump ‘western-style’ democracy.” He is[…]
Syrian rebels and government forces have clashed in southern Aleppo, including during the period of a promised Russian lull to allow humanitarian convoys in, according to media reports. Lorries carrying food were unable to enter Aleppo on Thursday because of intense bombardment, the AFP news agency reported from the rebel-held east[…]
Russia and the Syrian government have said they will open up a route to give besieged civilians, as well as rebels willing to surrender, a way out of the northern city of Aleppo. Backed by Russian air strikes, the Syrian army has been increasingly encircling the divided city, targeting opposition[…]
Several anti-doping agencies, including those of the United States and Canada, want a complete ban on Russia competing at the Rio Olympics if next week’s key report into allegations of state-backed doping at the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics is damning, they said on Saturday. Russia’s track and field athletes are[…]
Six Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bombers have delivered massive airstrikes against a major Islamic State camp and ammunition depots in Syria, Russia’s Defense Ministry says. The aircraft flew from Russia and returned home after the operation. The bombers, based at one of Russian’s southern air bases, took off on Tuesday morning,[…]
The three suicide bombers in the deadly gun and bomb attack on Istanbul’s international airport were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, a Turkish government official has said. The official gave no further details beyond confirming the attackers’ nationalities and declined to be named because details of the investigation have not[…]
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Russia will provide “the most active” air support for Syrian ground troops in and around the city of Aleppo to prevent terrorists from seizing it. “We will decide on how our air forces should act, depending on the situation,” Lavrov said in a media[…]
Russian Su-30 fighter jets have provided a safety corridor for an IL-76 cargo plane freighted by World Food Program to carry out the delivery of vital humanitarian cargo to the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, besieged by the Islamic State militants. The delivery, protected by the Russian Air Force, was[…]
Russia has pushed back the completion date of a showcase multi-billion dollar bridge to link the Russian mainland with annexed Crimea by one year, saying the original plan had to be adjusted to take account of the weight of the trains that will cross it. The Kremlin sees the bridge,[…]
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