Russia condemns Israeli strikes on Syria and considers them a flagrant violation of that country's sovereignty.
Maria Zakharova © Tass
Russia condemns Israeli strikes on Syria and considers them a flagrant violation of that country's sovereignty, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday. Zakharova said such actions were "fraught with extremely dangerous consequences" in the light of a sharp escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian war.
Israeli airstrikes have targeted sites associated with Iran and Hezbollah
Moscow and Tehran support Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Without this support, Assad would have fallen years ago.
Israeli forces killed four people in southern Lebanon on Monday, Lebanon's National News Agency reported, citing the health ministry, in two separate strikes that the Israeli military said targeted members of the Shi'ite Muslim armed group Hezbollah.
Iran could agree to dilute its most highly enriched uranium in exchange for all financial sanctions being lifted, its atomic chief said on Monday, one of the most direct indications so far of its position at talks with Washington.
Israel has taken steps to help settlers acquire land in the occupied West Bank and widen its powers in parts of the territory where Palestinians have some self-rule - measures they said aimed to undermine the two-state solution.
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