Sergey Lavrov, Photo: Russian Fed. Press Service Council / AFP / Profimedia
Russia announced on Saturday that it had discussed the “dangerous” situation in Syria in separate talks with Iran and Turkey, following the capture by jihadists and their allies of most of the city of Aleppo, reports AFP and Reuters, taken from Agerpres. .
Russia and Iran are the main allies of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey is a supporter of some rebel factions.
During the telephone conversation between the heads of Russian and Turkish diplomacy, Sergey Lavrov and Hakan Fidan, “both parties expressed their deep concern about the dangerous evolution of the situation in Syria, in relation to the military escalation in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib” , the Ministry indicated the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement. The two also expressed “the need to coordinate joint action to stabilize the situation in Syria.”
In the conversation between Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi, the two “expressed their extreme concern over the dangerous escalation of the situation in Syria”, the statement referring this time to the “terrorist offensive of some armed groups ” in the regions of Aleppo. and Idlib.
“The ministers agreed on the need to intensify joint efforts to stabilize the situation in Syria,” Moscow also said after the discussion with the Iranian minister.
Jihadists from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), dominated by the former Syrian affiliate of al-Qaida, and Syrian rebel factions launched an offensive against regime forces in the neighboring provinces of Idlib and Aleppo on Wednesday, taking control of dozens of cities earlier. entered Aleppo, Syria’s second city, on Friday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It is the first violence of this magnitude in recent years in Syria, where hostilities have generally ceased between belligerents backed by various regional and international powers with divergent interests in the devastating war launched in 2011.
