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Hollande said this meeting “is being held in a different format” from the previous one, referring to the ceasefire in Donbas.

In a joint statement with the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Gulf Arab allies, Turkey said Russia’s actions constituted a “further escalation” of the conflict and would only fuel more extremism.

But as news spread this week that the Russians had started bombing in Syria, the FSA and the “moderates” were disinterred in order to suggest that it was they and not Isis who were the targets of Russian air strikes. Repeated stories of the failures of the United...

Reports indicate that many of Russia’s airstrikes, launched on Wednesday, have been focused on insurgent groups fighting the Syrian army instead of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), the BBC says.

The Russians had told their American counterparts that their efforts would be directed against ISIS, and that, apparently, was good enough.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the 70th General Debate with a speech in which he called for the situation in Syria to be referred to the worldwide Criminal Court and said that five countries – Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkey and the United States – are key...

The value of political negotiations over Syria is questionable and airstrikes against militants are useless if they are not coordinated with the Syrian government, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Friday.

Russian jets appeared to be primarily bombing central and northwestern Syria, strategic regions that are the gateway to Assad’s strongholds in the capital of Damascus and the coast.

The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) spotted the powerful TOS-1 Buratino multiple rocket launcher in Luhansk.

While the USA and Russian Federation clash over Vladimir Putin’s decision to begin airstrikes in Syria, representatives from Iraqi Kurdistan called on the two world powers to stop bickering and align in their support for the group that both Washington and Moscow admit has...

Mr Cameron has said Britain will only take in vulnerable refugees from camps around Syria, and not those who have crossed the Mediterranean into Europe over recent months.

“So far, the problem has been that Russian Federation and Iran have not been able to contemplate the end state of Syria without Assad“, Cameron said, adding that he would work with any country to defeat Islamic State militants.

And he scorned Iran’s involvement in Russia’s putative alliance, describing Tehran as an “occupying power” in Syria and accusing it of fomenting terrorism and extremism across the region. “The only way to solve this problem at a fundamental...

“Russian Aerospace Forces engaged another four #ISIS facilities in #Syria this night”, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Twitter along with gun camera video showing large explosions.

The sudden military build-up in support of Mr Al Assad and a refugee crisis that has spilled into Europe have lent new urgency to resolving the Syria war.