Any peace talks with militants holed up in the last pockets of resistance in Idlib have nothing to do with human rights – instead, they amount to a capitulation, the Russian foreign minister has said in a swipe at US proposals.
Sergey Lavrov made the stark comments as intense fighting rages in Idlib province, controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an Al-Qaeda franchise previously known as Al-Nusra. Some UN members tend to “justify the atrocities of radical and terrorist groups,” the foreign minister told a UN Human Rights Council meeting on Tuesday.
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