{"id":245532,"date":"2016-05-24T03:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/kerry-to-lavrov-russia-must-stop-assad-strikes\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T03:30:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:30:45","slug":"kerry-to-lavrov-russia-must-stop-assad-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/kerry-to-lavrov-russia-must-stop-assad-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry to Lavrov: Russia must stop Assad strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"90\">\n<p><strong>US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Russia to persuade the Syrian government to stop what he\u00a0alleged to be strikes targeting\u00a0civilians in Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a phone call on Monday, Kerry told his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, that Moscow has \u201cspecial responsibility\u201d over the strikes Washington blames on the government of Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry made those accusations while the airstrikes by the US and its allies,\u00a0purportedly against Daesh, have led to civilian causalities, targeted the country&#8217;s infrastructure in many instances and have done little to stop the advances of terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia has a special responsibility in this regard to press the regime to end its offensive attacks and strikes that kill civilians, immediately allow relief supplies, as determined solely by the UN, to reach all in need, and to comply completely with the cessation of hostilities,&#8221; State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.<\/p>\n<p>Toner also noted that the US&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/05\/24\/467097\/US-Russia-Syria\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Russia to persuade the Syrian government to stop what he\u00a0alleged to be strikes targeting\u00a0civilians in Syria. In a phone call on Monday, Kerry told his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, that Moscow has \u201cspecial responsibility\u201d over the strikes Washington blames on the government of Bashar al-Assad. Kerry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}