Finian Cunningham It’s been a more-than-usual eventful week in the Middle East. Russian-backed forces made yet more significant military gains in defeating US-sponsored proxies in Syria, with a fearsome display of long-range Russian air and naval firepower against militant hold-outs near Deir ez-Zor. That was while Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday denied postponing a Syria peace conference, saying the conference is being prepared for. “This congress is being prepared now,” FM Sergei Lavrov told reporters on Tuesday. “No one has postponed it because the date of the congress has not been officially announced,” he ...
