by Taha Abdelwahed, Youssef Diab | Aug 4, 2017 | Middle East
Moscow, Beirut- Russia announced on Thursday it reached an agreement with the moderate Syrian opposition on a third de-escalation zone in the countryside of Homs. In a statement, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said: “On July...
by Taha Abdelwahed, Youssef Diab | Jul 26, 2017 | Middle East
Moscow, Beirut- Nine civilians were killed on Tuesday by airstrikes carried out either by Syria’s regime or Russia on Arbin in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus. The strikes came as Moscow opened a new channel of negotiations with opposition factions to expand the truce...
by Taha Abdelwahed, Youssef Diab | Jul 16, 2017 | Middle East
Moscow, Beirut – Russian Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Alexei Borodavkin said on Saturday that the UN-led Syria talks have a chance to make progress because demands for the overthrow of regime leader Bashar Assad have receded. Borodavkin told...
by Taha Abdelwahed, Youssef Diab | Jul 1, 2017 | Middle East
Moscow, Beirut, Ankara- The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed on Friday that banned Sarin gas was used in April’s chemical attack that killed dozens of people in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. The...
by Taha Abdelwahed, Youssef Diab | May 12, 2017 | Middle East
Moscow, Beirut- Russia insisted Thursday that the US contribution to the memorandum on establishing de-escalation zones in Syria should be acceptable for Damascus in the first place. Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters in Sochi that it was still...
