m&c Russia's Lavrov says al-Assad committed to halting violence | Beirut/Damascus - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held Tuesday what he described as 'very useful' talks with embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and said that Damascus was committed to... (photo: AP / Ariel Schalit)
The State Moscow support for Assad well-calculated | MOSCOW - By bluntly using its veto power to block a United Nations resolution urging Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, Russia has shown a willingness to defy the West at a scale rarely see... (photo: AP / RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press service, file)