New Russian Ambassador to Turkey said Moscow and Ankara have reached a common understanding of the situation in Syria and are actively cooperating on the issue. In an interview with Izvestiya newspaper, Aleksey Yerkhov, who will come to Turkey next week, expressed a hope that he would manage to make ...
A Russian soldier died after being hit by mortar fire in the central Hama province of war-torn Syria, the defense ministry said early Wednesday in a statement quoted by news agencies. Captain Nikolay Afanasov was killed by “sudden mortar fire on a Syrian government army camp”, the ministry said, indicating ...