Russia Wants Assad’s Promise to Prevent Clashes on Border
Russia wants Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to declare publicly his commitment to preventing armed clashes on the Turkish border, Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov said during a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart, according to Alexander Lukashevich, a ministry spokesman.

Mortar bombs fired across the Turkish-Syrian border killed five Turks in the town of Akcakale yesterday. Turkish artillery retaliated yesterday and today, killing 14 Syrian soldiers, according to Al Arabiya television.
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That´s bollocks and everybody knows it. Assad has lost control of his country, even if he crashed the opposition (unlikely) his regime will crumble down. Russians lost their allies there and they know it, they are just trying to buy time and savage anything they can.