Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says renewed sanctions on Iran following the pullout from the nuclear deal are absolutely illegitimate, adding that there will be ways to get around them. Lavrov, meeting with his Spanish counterpart Josep Borrell in Madrid, says it is “unacceptable” for the US or other countries ...
Israeli warplanes had not approached Syria’s airspace since Russia supplied it with S-300 missile systems, Ksenia Svetlova, who sits on the Israeli parliament’s defense committee, said Monday. “There hasn’t been a single mission since Syria received S-300s. The S-300 has changed the balance of power in the region,” she told reporters. ...