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Russia would veto UN Council vote on Syria

Russia would veto a draft United Nations Security Council calling for Syria to be hauled before the International Criminal Court, deputy foreign minister Gennady Gatilov said Tuesday. "The draft resolution that is currently submitted to the Security Council for us is...

Tartus in Syria, a supplier of 'martyrs' for Assad

Tartus has itself largely escaped the conflict in Syria, but posters of its sons killed fighting for the regime elsewhere in the country line the western city's main road. A wall in the central bus station is a tapestry of pictures of the dead, most of them young, posing in...