US Protecting Syria Terrorist Groups: Russia’s Lavrov

The US is trying to spare a ‘jihadist’ group in its attempts to unseat Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, Russia’s foreign minister has told the BBC.

Sergei Lavrov said the US had broken its promise to separate the powerful Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly known as al-Nusra Front) and other extremist groups from more the so called “moderate opposition.”

Lavrov was speaking to Stephen Sackur on BBC World News TV on the first anniversary of the beginning of the Russian air campaign in Syria.

“They [the US] pledged solemnly to take as a priority an obligation to separate the so called “moderate opposition” from Nusra,” he said.
Source: Websites, almanar.com.lb
30/9/16
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