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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem will visit Russia ahead of the Geneva 2 peace talks on the crisis due to begin in Switzerland later this month, Damascus's ambassador to Moscow said Monday.

As Syrian peace talks in Geneva appear to flounder, President Barack Obama on Friday vowed to apply more pressure on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

President Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisor Susan Rice on Friday said Washington was providing "lethal and non-lethal" support to select members of the Syrian opposition, offering more detail than usual on U.S. assistance.

Tehran, YJC. Archbishop Gregorios says some media are trying to show Syrians as favoring terrorist groups against the government.

Moscow urges external players to induce the sides in Syrian conflict to dialogue to stabilize the situation in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang.

Consulttions with the participation of experts from the Russian Federation, the United States, and Syria on the question of eliminating 12 facilities involved in the chemical production programme of the Syrian Arab Republic (S.A.R.) will be held at the beginning of February in the Hague where the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are located, a source at the UN told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

Tehran, YJC. Iran's Deputy FM has presented UN special envoy to Syria with a plan to end the country's crisis.

BEIRUT: Russian warplanes have mounted a new wave of air strikes since Thursday night in northwestern and western Syria, a Syrian military source and state TV said on Friday. The source said the 18 air strikes were in the provinces of Idlib, Hama and Aleppo and were against Islamic State targets.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ The Syrian government on Tuesday accused U.S.Senator John McCain, former French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner and two others of entering the country illegally.