West Criticizes Russia for Helping Assad Instead of Fighting Against ISIL
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The West is continuing to demonstrate its hypocrisy by slamming Russia for supplying Bashar al-Assad’s legitimate government in Syria with weaponry, as it badly needs Moscow’s assistance to resolve the ongoing conflict in the country and defeat the ISIL militant group, British journalist Patrick Cockburn believes.