BBC Arabic
| Apr 5, 2013
Many groups of the Free Syrian Army include foreign fighters who came to Syria under the banner of Jihad. This report from BBC Arabic showed video recordings of confrontations and exchanged insults and ridicule between members of Abu al-Fadl al-Ab...
Channel 4 News
| Mar 10, 2013
Extraordinary footage has emerged from a camera mounted to a Syrian tank as it ploughs through a badly scarred suburb of Damascus. It comes as the UN refugee agency says the number of Syrians fleeing the war could triple this year.
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Mosaic
| Mar 1, 2013
The International diplomatic group of countries known as 'Friends of Syria' met in Rome to discuss the situation in the country. However, Russia criticized the decisions that emerged from this meeting, and found that it is encouraging extremists ...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 23, 2013
Syria's main opposition group is pulling out of a series of international meetings in protest over the continuing violence in the country. The Syrian National Coalition said Russia "bears moral and political responsibility" for supplying weapons t...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 21, 2013
At least 42 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a powerful car bomb targeting the ruling Baath Party headquarters in central Damascus on Thursday, state media and activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 20, 2013
Russia, warning that the Syrian war is "a road to mutual destruction," has offered to broker talks between the opposition and the Assad regime it has long supported in an attempt to end the conflict. The offer came after meetings with Arab League ...
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Mosaic
| Feb 19, 2013
The Free Syrian Army has disowned an earlier statement in which it had apparently vowed to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon. The original threat of force was made over accusations that Iranian-backed Hezbollah is working alongside government forces in ...
CNN
| Jan 23, 2013
This was the first organzied effort to get Russian citizens out of Syria since the start of the uprising. Many Russians call Syria home, and there are many Syrians who also have Russian passports. But, despite the use of military aircraft to fly t...
CNN
| Dec 29, 2012
UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi met with Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov to push implementing a political process to resolve the ongoing conflict in Syria before the country descended into "hell".
Russia Today
| Dec 13, 2012
Russia's deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov admits that a rebel victory is possible in Syria's long-running conflict, saying the Assad government is losing control of the country -- but adds such an outcome would come at an unacceptable pric...
Russia–Syria relations refers to the bilateral relationship between the two countries, Russia and Syria. Russia has an embassy in Damascus and had a consulate in Aleppo, since closed down. Syria has an embassy in Moscow. Russia enjoys a historically strong, stable, and friendly relationship with Syria, as it did until the Arab Spring, with most of the Arab countries. In addition, Russia's only Mediterranean naval base for its Black Sea Fleet is located in the Syrian port of Tartus.
Early in 2012, Russia took a strong stand in support of Syria's government and against international action—promoted by Western and Arab countries—to punish the government for its crackdown on the Syrian uprising. As one of five veto-wielding members of UN Security Council, Russia promised to veto any sanctions against the Syrian government put before the Security Council and continued supplying large amounts of arms that Syria had earlier contracted to buy.
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