The US-led coalition, including the Kurdish armed units, lets militants of the Islamic State terrorist group leave Raqqa instead of killing them, the commander of Russia’s force grouping in Syria, Sergey Surovikin said. “Instead of eliminating terrorists guilty of killing hundreds and thousands of Syrian civilians, the US-led coalition together with the Democratic Forces Union controlled by it enters in collusion with ringleaders of the IS, who give up the settlements they had seized without fighting and head to the provinces where the Syrian government forces are active,” he said.Source TASS
More than a third of EDF’s (EDF.PA) workforce in France was on strike on Thursday in protest against a restructuring plan, the state-controlled utility said, reducing French power generation by more than 10%. Source Reuters
The European Union must introduce a new, automatic system of taking in migrants saved from the Mediterranean, the leaders of Italy and France said on Wednesday, as they sought to patch up bruised bilateral relations. Source Reuters
- Russia’s Foreign Ministry slams U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision Wednesday to tighten sanctions on Iran following strikes Saturday on the world’s largest crude-processing plant and an oil field in Saudi Arabia.
- The U.S. accuseds Iran of carrying out the attacks that forced the Saudi kingdom to shut down half its oil production.
- Russia, Iran’s top ally, calls the sanctions “destructive” and adds that they “will not solve anything,” Reuters reported, citing news agency Interfax.
