Russia’s using of an Iranian air base to launch airstrikes on combatants in Syria doesn’t just “complicate” things according to the US State Department—it could also violate international law. At question is United Nations Resolution 2231, one of the UN…
Russia—which has spent months bombing targets in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime in that nation’s civil war—is now claiming that adding new ground troops from Assad enemies could start a world war. This same week, the Russians…
The Syrian regime is dragging its feet on the destruction of its chemical weapons program, and that has the US pressuring Russia – a Syrian ally. The Russians brokered the deal that saw the US back off of air strikes…