Languages: English and Farsi Russia has shipped diesel cargo to Syria aboard a tanker that is under U.S. sanctions, marking the first known such direct supply to the Middle Eastern country in over ...

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Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the observatory, said the widespread killings in Jableh, Baniyas and surrounding areas in Syria's Alawite heartland amounted to the worst violence for years in a 13 ...