Syrian Foreign Minister: We Sure Are Glad Russia Is Bombing Our Country
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As Western powers scramble to formulate a response to Russia's escalating air campaign in Syria, Damascus’s foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, took to the United Nations Friday to defend Moscow’s intervention as a necessary bulwark against the spread of the Islamic State in Syria and beyond.