Russia admits keeping Syrian president in power ‘not crucial’ for the Kremlin

But yesterday (Tuesday), the head of Iran’s elite revolutionary guards suggested the nations disagreed over their end game.

However, one senior regional official cautioned against reading too much into the public statements on Assad, saying there is no difference between Russian Federation and Iran over him.

Lavrov said the “entire spectrum” of Syrian society should be represented at the negotiating table and reiterated Russia’s traditional stance that the fate of embattled president Bashar al-Assad should be decided by “the Syrian people”.

Russia’s Aerospace Forces started delivering pinpoint strikes at facilities of the Islamic State terrorist organization in Syria on September 30, 2015.

Russian Federation said on Tuesday that it could host a meeting between the Syrian government and unspecified members of the opposition next week in Moscow. But the USA and Russian militaries did agree last month to the protocols, including how to communicate with each other during a close encounter in the air.

About the effectiveness of the Russian Air Force strikes in Syria, Zakharva said that a few terrorist groups were expelled from main areas in Syria which helped in the return of thousands of civilians to their homes, noting that this was confirmed by United Nations sources.

Khoja indicated that the anti-Assad opposition now had low expectations of the United States after it blocked the delivery of anti-aircraft missiles from Saudi Arabia, though Free Syrian Army (FSA) units had been able to use Saudi-supplied TOW anti-tank missiles to destroy Syrian tanks in fighting around Aleppo.

“The USA and its allies insist Assad must leave office as part of any accord, though they have in recent weeks signaled they could countenance him staying on in a transitional administration”, Bloomberg writes.

Analysts say little of that weaponry or Russian personnel have been seen directly on the front lines.

He also expressed Russia’s support for negotiations on Syria’s future in the so-called “Vienna format”, a multilateral meeting attended by global peace brokers to initiate a diplomatic process toward a political settlement of the four-year brutal conflicts in the country.

State TV said the road was now being demined and would reopen to traffic Thursday.

Moscow now states it has arrange “working coordination groups” with “opposition representatives” aimed toward bolstering the fight against IS.

During the phone call, the Russian deputy minister described Iran’s role in helping to resolve the Syrian conflicts as “fundamental”, saying that the Islamic Republic should participate in the next round of Vienna talks about Syria. SOHR said 50 Syrian government soldiers were killed or wounded during the ISIS attack on Maheen.

In the west, Russian warplanes carried out airstrikes in Hama province while unidentified jets bombarded the outskirts of the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa in the north.