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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on February 19, 2018, 12:38:12 pm

Title: Russia: Call for Syrian army to halt Idlib push attempt to help Nusra front: RIA
Post by: TomSea on February 19, 2018, 12:38:12 pm

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Russia: Call for Syrian army to halt Idlib push attempt to help Nusra front: RIA

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that calls by unnamed members of the U.N. Security Council for the Syrian army to halt an offensive in Idlib province were designed to help Nusra Front, the RIA news agency reported.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-lavrov/russia-call-for-syrian-army-to-halt-idlib-push-attempt-to-help-nusra-front-ria-idUSKCN1G316Z (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-lavrov/russia-call-for-syrian-army-to-halt-idlib-push-attempt-to-help-nusra-front-ria-idUSKCN1G316Z)

Nusra front, Al Qaeda connections at the least. One of the Turk rebel groups, allegedly, Nusra front connections.