The US is trying to spare a ‘jihadist’ group in its attempts to unseat Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, Russia’s foreign minister has told the BBC. Sergei Lavrov said the US had broken its promise to separate the powerful Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly known as al-Nusra Front) and other extremist groups ...
The main result of Russia’s operation in Syria is that ISIL and Al-Nusra Front terrorists have been kept out of Damascus, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. Russian airstrikes on radical extremists in Syria over the past year have ensured that “neither ISIL, nor Al-Qaeda nor the Nusra Front are now ...