Syria no breeding ground for Islamic State: Assad

Blair’s “confession is the most important evidence”, Assad added. US trade with Russian Federation makes up a trivial percentage of the country’s GDP.

“The strikes were aimed at the depots with fuels and lubricants, a factory for manufacturing explosives, a command point and the Islamic State’s headquarters in the city of Idlib”, General Kartapolov said. A number of senior IRGC officers have been killed in Syria in recent months.

Secretary Kerry recently met with leaders of outside powers engaged in Syria.

But Lavrov said the conflict – or its solution – is “not about Assad”.

The president reiterated that his country is not a breeding ground for Islamic State militants. French jets have repeatedly bombed Islamic State’s de facto capital, Raqqa, this week. Tensions could surface among Council members if one resolution was rejected in favor of the other.

In next week’s visits, Araud said, Hollande hopes “to really try to impress on President Obama and on President Putin the sense of urgency”. “We will consider any further requests for support from France under Article 42.7 of the EU Treaty following Friday’s Paris terror attacks”.

Joshua Landis, a Syria expert and the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, isn’t so sure Russian Federation and Iran are prepared to see Mr. Assad go.

“The most important thing that Russian Federation can do is to use its unique relationship with the Assad regime” in order to ensure he leaves power, he said. “Maybe it’s getting through to them”, said Mr Talbott.

But Putin later said the issue must be decided by the Syrians as part of that process. Included in the meetings were the crown prince of the U.A.E, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and the deputy crown prince and defense minister of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman.

The fact remains, though, that the US and its allies don’t want to see Mr. Assad benefit from any effort to dislodge ISIS from territory it controls in Syria unlike in Iraq.

To facilitate the cease-fire, participants agreed during six hours behind closed doors that they will stop all support and supplies to “various belligerents” on both sides of the Syrian civil war once negotiations are underway.

In the aftermath of the attacks in Paris and the downed Russian plane in Egypt, Moscow and Paris took steps towards a united military front against ISIL.

It likely won’t be the last call for Western nations to relax the economic pressure on Russian Federation in the interest of furthering the fight against ISIS. “The same as we did after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001”, Lavrov said. Moscow recently said it would complete the sale of a sophisticated antimissile system to Tehran.

Russian Federation is now developing proposals for joint military action with the French navy against IS in Syria. And they said these divisions between Moscow and Tehran may become more pronounced as the negotiations continue.