China has urged all parties to the Syrian conflict to end violence at once. Speedy stabilization would prove in the interests of the people of Syria, Deputy Chinese Foreign Minister Cai Ziung said in the wake of his talks with the Syrian leadership in Da

Apart from the traditional Russian concerns for international law and its principle of non-interference in internal affairs of sovereign states, there was also a new fear of being manipulated by Western powers to sanction regime change, as it happened wi

DAMASCUS - The Russian embassy in Damascus dismissed Thursday media reports circulated recently about some covert Syrian-Russian military cooperation, regarding such reports as "propaganda and incompatible with the truth." The reports, claiming that Russ

Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- A top-level Russian delegation sought to prod President Bashar al-Assad toward a political settlement after Russia shored up the Syrian leader by blocking United Nations action over his 11-month-old crackdown. Foreign Minister Serge

On February 7, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Foreign Intelligence Service Director Mikhail Fradkov travelled to Damascus to help stabilise the situation in Syria by encouraging democratic reforms. The substance of President Dmitry Medvedev’

SECURITY men, most in plain clothes, speckle the main market square of Deraa, a town of 350,000 near Syria’s border with Jordan. Yet in the brief time given for visiting journalists to stray from a scripted tour that highlights “terrorist” attacks on sta