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With another double veto in the UN Security Council courtesy of Russia and China, the United States, Europe, the Arab League, and Syrians themselves are once again scratching their heads over how to compel Bashar al-Assad to cease his “killing machine” b
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The Russian veto of a UN Security Council Resolution earlier this month has infuriated the international community. The US and EU as well as Turkey, which has been carrying out quiet diplomacy with the Kremlin, have been urging Moscow to join the interna
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Russia and China, not in favor of a regime change in Syria, vetoed a recent UN Security Council resolution on Feb. 4, aiming to make Assad to step down, drawing fire of Western and Middle Eastern countries. China is also backing Assad regime but politica
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Wassenaar, February 16 (ANI): In the wake of two fresh nuclear advances, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has urged Iran to continue dialogue with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Russia has criticized a report by the IAEA accusing Iran of d
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday stressed the importance of non-interference in the affairs of sovereign states and that the peoples alone have the right to self-determination. The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister described the so-called
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The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to support a non-binding resolution condemning Syria’s government. The resolution, which passed 137 to 12 with 17 abstentions, calls for the Syrian government to immediately halt attacks on civilians and urg
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BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu agreed during talks that a political solution is the only way to resolve the increasingly violent crisis in Syria.
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The diplomacy between world powers speeded up Feb. 17, after the U.N. General Assembly intensified the pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad the day before by overwhelmingly approving a resolution that endorses an Arab League plan calling for him
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's unrelenting military offensive against rebel-held areas suggests that his regime is basing its survival on repression rather than reform, despite his promise of a referendum next week on a new constitution that could re
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Just days after Russia and China vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the General Assembly moved to rectify that injustice. What's most impressive is how decisively that body acted. The only nat
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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
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Helping Syria's child victims STORY HIGHLIGHTS "The humanitarian situation in many parts of Syria has reached its lowest point," doctor says An international aid agency operating inside Syria cannot reach trapped citizens The suffering will only get wors
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The ‘Arab Spring’ should not be seen as a pretext for foreign interference in sovereign countries, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a message of greeting to the participants in a conference of the Middle East section of the Valdai Internati
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it fears security forces carried out a massacre in Daraa, where dozens of civilians disappeared after being cornered in a valley. Speaking after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Vienna,
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AMMAN/BEIRUT - Syrian opposition leaders and the West have scorned a new offer by President Bashar Al Assad to hold multi-party elections, as his troops mounted more attacks on rebel-held areas. Assad promised a referendum in two weeks time on a new cons
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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
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BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syrian troops attacked Thursday rebel strongholds in Deraa where the uprising against President Bashar Assad erupted nearly a year ago as the U.N. General Assembly adopted the same Arab League plan that was earlier vetoed by Russia and Chin
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