{"id":68541,"date":"2016-02-04T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=68541"},"modified":"2016-02-04T20:54:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T18:54:11","slug":"russia-riyadh-backed-opposition-left-geneva-talks-due-to-syrian-armys-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=68541","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Riyadh-backed opposition left Geneva talks due to Syrian army&#8217;s victories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA-The Russian Foreign Ministry said Riyadh-backed opposition left the Syrian-Syrian talks in Geneva due to the successes made by the Syrian army on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason behind such a harsh step of the so-called Riyadh group is that the Syrian army has made serious success over the past days in the north of the Aleppo province,&#8221; Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry official spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the successful operation of the Syrian army and allies, the terrorists were cut off the supply routes between the north of the Aleppo province and the Idlib province. &#8220;This was a serious blow for terrorists and those who are their accomplices and sponsors,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian army, backed by popular defense groups, has recently broken a long-time siege of Nubbul and al-Zahraa towns in Aleppo northern countryside after restoring security and stability to vast areas in their vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>Zakharova said Russia is cautiously following up the distribution of humanitarian aid in Syria but warned of terrorists benefitting from this aid in their terrorist activities.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ankara has not provided a single piece of evidence Russian planes violated its airspace, Zakharova said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of the planes from the Russian air group in Syria has violated the Turkish border,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Ankara has not yet provided any facts to back up its charges. There have been no replies to direct requests from the embassy to provide such information, either.&#8221; Similar queries addressed to NATO are ignored, as well.<\/p>\n<p>According to the diplomat, Turkey covers up its military activity on border with Syria by accusing Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems that all ungrounded accusations in regard to the Russian Aerospace Force are voiced by Ankara in order to find an excuse or maybe use it is a cover for stepping up its military activities in the area of the Turkish-Syrian border,&#8221; the Russian diplomat said.<\/p>\n<p>Manal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA-The Russian Foreign Ministry said Riyadh-backed opposition left the Syrian-Syrian talks in Geneva due to the successes made by the Syrian army on the ground. &#8220;The reason behind such a harsh step of the so-called Riyadh group is that the Syrian army has made serious success over the past days in the north of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987,100],"tags":[8684,1346,5020],"class_list":["post-68541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","category-news","tag-riyadh-backed-opposition","tag-russian-foreign-ministry","tag-syrian-syrian-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}