I'm talking about the one between Syria's President Bashar al Assad and his Russian visitors – some might say allies – Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Mikhail Fradkov, Moscow's director of foreign intelligence. While the innocent civilians trapped by...

Their mission was not to nudge Bashar al-Assad from power and offer him exile in Russia. Rather, the talk was about dialogue with the opposition, offering a referendum on a new constitution, and the Arab League resuming its “stabilising” mission. ...

According to the report, the presence of British and Qatari forces in Homs was high on the agenda during a Tuesday meeting between Syrian officials and the head of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Mikhail Fradkov. Secret Intelligence Service MI6,...

According to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, one of the results of Lavrov’s visit to Syria was the decision by the Arab League to bring back its observer mission in Syria. High-level discussions of the Syrian issue continued shortly after the...

Russia objected to this, and more generally to the West imposing a diktat on a sovereign state it considers an ally. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, accompanied by the overseas intelligence chief, Mikhail Fradkov, flew to Syria on February...

The debkafile site said the presence of British and Qatari troops in Homs topped the agenda of Tuesday’s talks between President Assad government’s officials and head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov. Qatar makes little secret...