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 ...
Russia has vetoed a French resolution on Syria at the UN Security Council. The document was submitted by Paris a week ago and is countered by a Russian draft resolution still to be voted on. In his statement, the Russian envoy to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, said that all of ...
