BREAKING NEWS

Russia invites core UN members to Syrian peace Congress

MOSCOW - Russia has invited all permanent members of the UN Security Council as well as Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia to attend a forthcoming peace congress on Syria, the RIA news agency reported on Tuesday.
Russia, a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, is hosting what it has called a Syrian congress of national dialog in the Russian city of Sochi on Jan. 29-30.