- 18:49 15/06/2013
The Russian Foreign Ministry has described a resolution on Syria passed by the United Nations Human Rights Council as “biased” and said that it is an attempt to legitimize one particular Syrian opposition group.
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- 15:16 15/06/2013
The creation of a no-fly zone in war-torn Syria would contravene international law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday, amid media speculation that the US plans to do just that.4
- 00:26 15/06/2013
US President Barack Obama will attempt to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin in their planned meeting Monday that it is in Moscow’s interest to support the removal of Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, a White House official said Friday in the wake of fresh US claims that Syria has used chemical weapons.8
- 23:58 14/06/2013
The National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces welcomed Friday the US decision to provide military support to armed insurgents.
- 21:47 14/06/2013
The Syrian government on Friday called recent White House claims about the use of chemical weapons in Syria “a statement full of lies based on fabricated information.”
- 15:18 14/06/2013
Russia is not convinced by a US report on the alleged use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces against rebels, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said on Friday.1
- 13:32 14/06/2013
The use of chemical weapons in Syria is a “matter of great concern,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday, but did not say what the alliance might do in response.1
- 11:02 14/06/2013
A US government report concluding Syria has used chemical weapons against rebels, crossing what US President Barack Obama has previously described as a “red line,” is a fabrication, a senior Russian lawmaker said Friday.3
- 02:12 14/06/2013
The White House said Thursday it now believes with “high confidence” that Syrian government forces have used chemical weapons multiple times during the two-year conflict there and vowed to boost US aid to the armed opposition fighting to remove Syrian President Bashar Assad from power.3
- 19:40 09/06/2013
The Syrian Army has launched a major offensive in Aleppo to retake the rebel-held northern city, the Al-Manar website said on Sunday.2
- 18:37 06/06/2013
Moscow has called on Turkey to provide more information about the reported seizure of the chemical agent sarin from militants detained on the border with Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
- 18:36 05/06/2013
The United States has implemented new sanctions against airlines in Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine that it says helped Iran acquire aircraft, which may have been used to deliver weapons for the war in Syria.
- 15:54 05/06/2013
Moscow is investigating whether mortar bombs which landed near the Russian Embassy in Damascus on Tuesday were intended to kill Russians, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.1
- 18:24 04/06/2013
A new UN report into human rights violations in Syria, including the use of chemical weapons, on Tuesday drew criticism from Russia.
- 13:05 02/06/2013
The Syrian army has seized two cylinders of the nerve agent sarin in an operation in the city of Hama, Press TV reported on Sunday.
- 10:19 02/06/2013
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry held a telephone talk to discuss ways for resolving the Syria crisis, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on its website on Sunday.2
- 03:03 31/05/2013
President Bashar Assad has said that Syria “will respond in kind” to any future Israeli airstrike on its territory and expressed confidence in the victory over the foes of the Syrian state.
- 21:43 30/05/2013
The Syrian National Coalition is attempting to disrupt resolution of the Syrian crisis and is pushing for foreign military intervention in the country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.
- 02:44 30/05/2013
The Syrian National Coalition welcomed the forthcoming international conference on Syria, proposed earlier by Russia and the United States, but reiterated that President Bashar Assad must resign before the opposition joins any peace talks, Al Jazeera reported.2
