Source: The Daily Beast
Russia’s foreign ministry pushed back Monday at the U.S. warning that the Kremlin was escalating the conflict in Syria, arguing that its policy to support President Bashar al-Assad’s government in the fight against extremists has been longstanding. “We have always supplied equipment to them for their struggle against terrorists,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria V. Zakharova. “We are supporting them, we were supporting them, and we will be supporting them” in that battle. Secretary of State John Kerry called his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on Saturday to warn against sending military aid to Syria.
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