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more likely that the =nited States has lost control of the rebels, particularly the jihadists. A=d Russia has lost control of Mr. Assad, who retains Tehran's backing and has killed so many people that he canno= compromise. Syria's downward spiral will continue. Article 2.</=ont> The Washington Post 4

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price. Washington's failure to act created a=vacuum that Mr. Putin and Mr. Lavrov used to boost Russia's global stand=ng. "For the last two years, Lavrov has=dramatically elevated his profile on the world stage," Susan Glasser rec=ntly wrote in Foreign Policy magazine. "He has done so by almost singl=

the Middle East today is not the risk of a six-day Israeli war against Iran. It is the risk that Western wishful nonthinking allows the mullahs of Tehran to get their hands on nuclear weapons. Because I am in no doubt that they would take full advantage of such a lethal lever. We would have acquiesce

Hillary Clinton tried repeatedly on Tuesday to reach her Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. He avoided her calls for twenty-four hours. Meanwhile Lavrov, who was in Australia, said State gave him an inconvenient time frame for the conversation, which didn't work as he had scheduled meetings with hig

ferating. In fact, one country recently announced that it was creating a new elite "Cybercorps" as part of its military. The announcement came from Tehran. The chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times. This article is adapted from his new book, "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars a

y after the tragic massacre of civilians in the Syrian village of Houla on May 25 that left about 116 civilians dead, including dozens of children. Lavrov cannot deny the evidence presented by the United Nations that the heinous crime was committed by government forces. At the same time, however, he c