The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on Friday to hear details of a US-Russian deal on Syria as it weighs whether to endorse the agreement, diplomats said. Council members will meet at 5:30 pm (2130 GMT) for the closed-door consultations called. Under the deal, all sides were ...
Russia expects the United States to conduct details talks with the armed Syrian opposition unwilling to comply with this week’s ceasefire, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told Sputnik on Friday. Bogdanov said in an interview that some of the armed groups “place themselves outside these agreements and in effect ...