Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan began talks in Moscow with the controversial sale of an air-defense system and the conflict in Syria high on their agenda. “There is a huge batch of issues that we have to discuss” including in defense and military-technical cooperation, Putin ...
Russia’s foreign minister has slammed as “inadmissible” Israel’s airstrikes on Syria, underlining the need for respecting the sovereignty of the Arab country. In an interview with Egypt’s al-Ahram newspaper on Saturday, Sergei Lavrov said Moscow’s stance on the inadmissibility of Israeli shelling of Syria’s territory has not changed. ...