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Russia Urges US-led Coalition to Strike Renamed Nusra Front as 'Terrorists'

by Reuters

   MOSCOW --

   Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday urged the U.S.-led
   coalition to continue viewing the Nusra Front, now renamed Jabhat Fatah
   al-Sham, as a terrorist organisation and to carry out strikes on its
   positions.

   "I have a very demanding task now - not to let this list [of terrorist
   organizations] be reduced," Lavrov told a news conference.

   "I have no reason not to trust [U.S. Secretary of State] John Kerry,
   but what we see on the ground [in Syria] is that the coalition is very
   reluctant to strike the positions of the Nusra Front."

   Lavrov also said he would demand that the Russia-U.S. agreement on
   cessation of hostilities in Syria, reached on Sept. 9, be published in
   full.