Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have discussed, in a phone conversation, the coronavirus pandemic, and the developments in Syria and Libya, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday

The total count of coronavirus cases in Syria has risen to 123 after one more patient has tested positive for COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Monday

The chief of the Russian General Staff's Main Operational Directorate slammed on Monday the United States' "aggressive" military surveillance in the Mediterranean Sea area, adding that this contradicts the agreement on Syria

Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an umbrella grouping of Shia armed militias also known as Hashd al-Shaabi, said on Monday that it had detained two senior members of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, outlawed in Russia) in the northern province of Nineveh

The Russian side of the Russian-Turkish commission monitoring the implementation of the Syrian truce has recorded six ceasefire violations in the country in the past 24 hours, while the Turkish side has registered two truce breaches, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday instructed the Defense Ministry to hold negotiations with Syria on the transfer of additional facilities into Syria's ownership

The Israeli army opened fire with automatic weapons in a disputed territory of the Shebaa farms located on the border with Lebanon, when a shepherd was grazing his flocks of sheep on the border zone, the state-run Lebanese NNA news agency reported on Friday

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Vietnamese counterpart, Pham Binh Minh, discussed over phone talks the cooperation between the two countries in the UN Security Council (UNSC), as well as recent developments around the Iranian nuclear program and conflicts in Syria and Libya, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday