Lavrov: US air strikes in Syria violate global law

“The [Russian] foreign minister extended an invitation to the leadership of [Hamas] to visit Moscow and the movement accepted the invitation and the date will be determined later”, the official said.

Lavrov said officials from Russian Federation and the US would continue to work to find a common strategy for fighting IS.

Sergei Lavrov will confer with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir during his two-day trip to Doha starting today, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday.

He told reporters after the talks that while Russian Federation and the U.S. agree on the need to pool efforts to fight IS, they so far have failed to reach a common approach, given “contradictions between various players on the ground, including armed groups of the Syrian opposition”.

The Syrian National Coalition may be motivated to hear what Moscow officials have to say because of whispers emanating from Turkey and elsewhere that Putin may be more amenable now than he was at the start of his ally’s civil war to see a government of national unity replace Assad as an element of a peace plan.

The senior State Department official said Kerry also reiterated U.S. commitment to promoting conditions for a negotiated settlement to end the conflict in Syria.

Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported Erdogan’s comments on Monday without reaction from the Kremlin.

He additionally slammed the Obama administration’s change in coverage in Syria, the place U.S. air energy is now dedicated to defending insurgent forces that the USA has educated and outfitted.

The ministry said Lavrov would also hold meetings with the emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and foreign minister Khalid al-Attiyah.

Lavrov pointed out that the essence of the Russian proposal on the formation of a wide-scale anti-terrorism front, based on an acceptable worldwide law, aims at setting a barrier in the face of the terrorists in Syria, Iraq and other countries in the region and ensuring all required circumstances for a successful solution to the political, economic and humanitarian issues. He added that nobody should impose their will on others by force.