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Its repeated vetoes, mainly on intervention in Syria or calling for investigations into alleged atrocities committed by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, have led to criticism that the Kremlin is undermining the council.

“Instead, countries including the United States rely on a patchwork system for swapping individual extremist identities”, the report found, calling that system “an inherently weak arrangement that increases the odds a foreign fighter will be able to cross the...

France has been part of the US-led coalition bombarding IS in Iraq since September 2014, and has carried out 215 out of almost 4,500 strikes there, according to French and USA figures. “We are trying to establish a few kind of coordinated framework”, Putin said in an...

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...

As pioneers accumulated in New York at the United Nations general gathering, the U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry, talked about Syria with the Russian outside clergyman Sergei Lavrov.

“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.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has defended President Barack Obama’s decision not to attack Syria more than two years ago because diplomacy was able to prevail.

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.

A United Nations vehicle transported the two fighters, as well as the father of one of them, from the Syrian town of Zabadani to Lebanon, after an agreement with government forces and Damascus ally Hezbollah to grant safe passage, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

“We must not forget that the roots of today’s wars, destruction, and terror can be found in the occupation, invasion and military intervention of yesterday”, Rouhani said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.

In an interview with CBS television, Mr Putin said the Syrian president’s troops were “the only legitimate conventional army there”.

Washington has demanded that Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad step down, but Putin’s rival alliance with Shiite-led states will instead shore up the beleaguered government in Damascus.