
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday denied postponing a Syria peace conference, saying the conference is being prepared for. “This congress is being prepared now,” FM Sergei Lavrov told reporters on Tuesday. “No one has postponed it because the date of the congress has not been officially announced,” he ...

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday that he supported a diplomatic solution for the Syria conflict, as America and its partners look beyond the defeat of the ISIL terrorist group in the war-torn nation. Speaking to reporters ahead of his arrival for talks in Finland on Monday, Mattis said ...