IRNA - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian Presidents Special Envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev on Friday dealt with the agenda of the upcoming round of Astana talks. They stressed the importance of continuous coordination between the two sides regarding the raised issues to come out with positive results that achieve aspirations of the ...

Sputnik - Russia announced that it will be sending S-300s to Syria as part of its response to Israel's lethal recklessness last week, thus drawing a new line in the sand and making it so that Israel will no longer have the freedom to bomb the Arab Republic at will like it used to. The Ministry ofDefense attributed last Monday's "chain oftragic circumstances",...

Al Jazeera.com - Russia has started delivering S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Syrian forces, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. Lavrov told a news conference at the United Nations (UN) on Friday that "the delivery started already" after a decision was reached followingdowningof a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft which was hit ...

TASS- Russia and Syria have signed an agreement on expanding the territory of the Russian Navys logistics facility in Tartus for 49 years. The document was published on the official legal information portal. "The current agreement will stay effective for 49 years and be automatically prolonged for 25-year periods, if neither party makes a twelve ...

Alwaght- Russians have long been trying to identify their own real interests and act accordingly. Therefore, with regard to current regional developments, when one of the officials of these countries, especially the Arab ones travel to Russia, there are growing speculations on possible deals between Russians and the Arab officials, especially on ...

Alwaght- It has always been known that Russia supports Syria in its battle against the wave of extremism that has swept the country off its once steady ground. It has been evident that Moscow's foreign policy was adapted to fit the criteria which would necessitate any kind of political support to the Syrian government that has been the basis of Russian-...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Russian military is fulfilling weapons contracts signed with the Syrian government before the onset of the present crisis in the Muslim country, an arms export official said. Viktor Komardin, the deputy head of state arms export corporation Rosoboronexport, said Syria was receiving defense equipment outlined in contracts signed ...

A senior MP today blamed Russia and China for the plight of almost two million Syrian refugees forced to flee their countrys civil war. Richard Ottaway, chairman of the Commons foreign affairs committee, blasted Moscow and Beijing for blocking efforts to end the conflict. He said politicians in Iran and Iraq, and Hezbollah chiefs, also bore ...