French President Francois Hollande is weighing up whether to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Paris next week after the Kremlin blocked a UN bid to end to the bombing of Aleppo, the French government said Monday. Putin is due in Paris on October 19 to inaugurate a new Orthodox ...
Russia’s defense ministry said Monday that the country was poised to transform its naval facility in the Syrian port city of Tartous into a permanent base. “In Syria we will have a permanent naval base in Tartous,” Russian news agencies quoted deputy defense minister Nikolai Pankov as saying. The defense ...
