Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has said that the international community should condemn the attack that claimed the life of Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and called on the United Nations to step up counter-terrorism efforts, the Syrian Foreign Ministry's press service said on Saturday

Paris supports the prolongation of negotiations to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within the framework of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, led by France, Russia and the United States, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, secretary of state at the French Foreign Ministry, told reporters on Saturday during his visit to Yerevan

The Russian side of the Russian-Turkish commission monitoring the implementation of the Syrian truce has registered 29 ceasefire violations in Syria over the past 24 hours, while the Turkish side has registered four breaches of the truce, the information bulletin of the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday

The EU-Turkey relations are getting thornier with each new day, with the most recent stumbling block being the resolution adopted by the European Parliament, which calls for sanctions against Ankara over the partial reopening of the previously fenced off Varosha coastline ghost town in the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

The Russian side of the Russian-Turkish commission monitoring the implementation of the Syrian truce has registered 32 ceasefire violations over the past 24 hours, while the Turkish side has detected one such breach, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday

The Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said on Friday that the US has been developing nerve agents since the 1980s and remains reluctant to get rid of weapons of mass destruction despite all of its calls for fight against chemical weapons use