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Russia hosted Free Syrian Army delegations: minister

A Russian foreign ministry official said on Monday delegations from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) had visited Moscow several times, Russian news agencies reported, as Moscow stepped up political efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria. The Kremlin also said President Vladimir Putin,...

Before Syria, Russia struggled to land air strikes on target

In the courtyard of an apartment building in the town of Gori in ex-Soviet Georgia is a clue to whether Russia's air strikes on targets in Syria are as accurate as the Kremlin would like the rest of the world to believe. Fashioned out of fragments of ordnance is a makeshift shrine to the five...

Syrian rebel alliance says Russia must stop bombing FSA

An alliance of Free Syrian Army-related groups in southern Syria said on Monday Russia must stop bombing rebels before they could talk about cooperating with it, saying they hadn't turned down an offer of support but Moscow must first halt its attacks. In comments marking a...

Nusra Front kills dozens of Syrian regime troops in Aleppo

Nusra Front's Twitter accounts said dozens of Syrian regime army were killed south of Aleppo in an ambush set by the al-Qaeda-linked group. Meanwhile, three civilians killed and tens wounded in Russian air strikes on the ISIS-held town of al Bab near Aleppo, activists said....