BEIRUT: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the United States and the West could do more to help rebuild war-torn Syria to improve the lives of refugees there. But Lavrov lamented that the US is “is very cautious about reconstructing infrastructure facilities” in Syria. The Israeli military says it targeted and killed seven “armed terror operatives” who had crossed into Israeli territory in the southern Golan Heights. The army’s announcement came shortly after Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman toured a Patriot missile defense battery in northern Israel during a military preparedness drill. Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy of the Russian General Staff says the U.N. peacekeepers, aided by Russian forces, conducted their first patrolling mission in the area on Thursday.

Source: Pakistan Today August 02, 2018 13:18 UTC