MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow hopes for better relations with the United States based on respect for mutual interests once Donald Trump takes office, in contrast with the “messianic” approach of the outgoing administration that has ravaged ties, Russia’s foreign minister said Tuesday.
“The capital was just two or three weeks from being captured by terrorists,” he said, accusing President Barack Obama’s administration of tacitly backing the al-Qaida affiliated militants and half-heartedly fighting the Islamic State group in the hope of using them to unseat Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Asked to comment on Trump’s interview with the Times of London published Sunday in …read more
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