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Regime Intensifies its Campaign on Barada Valley and Strengthens its Positions

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 11, 2017 | Middle East

The military campaign led by the Syrian regime and militias loyal to it on the besieged area of Barada Valley enters its third week today. Violent clashes between the regime’s forces and armed opposition groups are taking place on several fronts, and the most violent...

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May Warns from Division amid Sterling Fall against U.S. Dollar

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 11, 2017 | World

London- British Prime Minister Theresa May has called on politicians to improve their behaviors toward equality, migration, and globalization, warning they may lose control against the policy of division. Six months after her appointment as Prime Minister following...

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Churkin: UN is Invited to Astana Negotiations

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 6, 2017 | World

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said that the UN has been invited to participate in negotiations between parties to the Syrian crisis that are due to be held in Astana at the end of January. The Russian news agency Tass...

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Opinion: Russia’s Options – Fighting or Negotiations

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Dec 29, 2016 | Opinion

The Russian plane and the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey are events that are not deemed critical enough to make the Kremlin change its policies. Rather, the continuation of regional and international conflict and the insistence of the opposition on...

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a news conference after the talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in Moscow, Russia, December 20, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Syrian Opposition Says not Part of Talks that Moscow Said Are Underway

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 27, 2016 | Middle East

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that the Syrian regime was holding talks with the opposition ahead of possible peace talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, the Interfax news agency reported. Lavrov did not say where the current talks were being held and...