Syria – Uniting the Divided

... compromise on the issue of Syria. Both sides have shown a willingness to make concessions. Lavrov, for example, has made it clear that Moscow is not against including members of the Ahrar ash-Sham and Jaysh al-Islam groups in the delegation representing the Syrian opposition, despite the fact that Russia considers them to be terrorists. “It is not up to someone outside the UN to decide; it is up to Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, to decide,” the Russian ...