In a frontline town divided by regime and rebel forces in northwest Syria, students have returned to classrooms in a bombed-out building with no glass in the windows, no doors, desks, chairs or electricity.

Pakistan’s market is interested in Russian supplies of products of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Turkey may buy Russian Su-35 fighter jets if the United States refuses to sell F-16 to it, Turkish Undersecretary for Defense Industries Ismail Demir told CNN Turk.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said that he wants to set up a meeting of Russian and Ukrainian presidents Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky as soon as possible.

Russia found rare support for its war in Ukraine at the UN General Assembly on Monday from Syria, whose leadership has relied on Moscow’s support in its civil war.

…Assuming that smuggling large quantities of Starlink equipment into Iran is not feasible, getting it into the country could require some co-ordination with Iran ….

Turkey is not going to recognize the accession of the Donetsk and the Lugansk People’s Republics as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions to Russia, just as it never recognized Crimea’s, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.

Iran summoned the British and Norwegian ambassadors over what it called interference and hostile media coverage of the nationwide unrest triggered by the death of a woman detained by morality police.

Internet blackout reported on September 21

…Tasnim news agency, affiliated to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, said at least 1,200 protesters had been arrested….