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The Russian minister also expressed his conviction that all those fighting against terrorist groups such as ISIL and others ought to coordinate their efforts. The United States believes that their coalition doesn’t need this approval from the UN Security Council.

That military presence in Syria could remain in place even if Mr Assad is eventually supplanted by a new government since Russian Federation would be a part of any transition talks.

“The operation’s military goal is exclusively air support of the Syrian armed forces in their fight against ISIL”, Ivanov said. However, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad main backers, Iran and Russian Federation, criticized that effort and kept their distance...

Iran believes that the United States is the one that started the crisis by creating and then backing terrorist groups such as the ISIL and other Takfiri groups, and therefore Washington is not fit to be a focal point in the Syria talks, Esmail Kosari, member of the National...

Over the past several days, there have been frequent confrontations between Israeli security forces and Palestinian worshippers, who go to the site.

Sky’s diplomatic editor Dominic Waghorn said: “Putin’s been flying drones over parts of Syria, not where Islamic State are based, but where there are rebel groups, a few of whom are close to, and are backed by America”.

The Kremlin announced Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin has sent a request to Russia’s upper chamber of parliament asking lawmakers to authorize using the Russian army overseas. Military conversation between Russian Federation and the U.S. was cut off following the...

The US “provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern worldwide law and the United Nations charter”, Putin said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani that since the USA seems signed onto the multilateral nuclear agreement agreed to in July, it’s time to get to work.

A Syrian refugee carries his child at a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing part of the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast, September 19, 2015. From the start, the military had trouble recruiting and vetting Syrians who were interested in fighting against the...

Putin, without naming the United States, accused Washington of trying to enforce its will on others and mulling a possible reform of the U.N., which he suggested stands in the way of the perceived US domination.

“Some of his meetings and scheduled programs will be cancelled and he is returning (to Tehran) on Monday afternoon”, IRNA quoted a senior official from Rouhani’s office as saying.

Russia’s sudden military build-up this month in support of Assad and a refugee crisis that has spilled over from the region into Europe have lent new urgency to attempts to resolve the Syria conflict.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that while Syria’s government needs reform, the country will fall to the Islamic States if the worldwide community makes getting rid of Assad its top goal.

A Syrian rebel commander who recently completed a USA training program has told the Pentagon that he surrendered six coalition-provided trucks and ammunition to militants from the al-Qaida affiliate in Syria, known as the al-Nusra Front.