Syria claims Russia prevented it from intervening in last summer's war

MEMRI reports that Syrian deputy foreign minister Faisal Al-Miqdad told the UAE daily al-Khaleej that Russia prevented the Syrians from intervening in last summer's war between Israel and Hezbullah in Lebanon.Al-Miqdad claimed that the war broke out because the Arab countries had tried to eliminate Hezbullah.The second claim is pure nonsense, but the first claim is quite interesting. You may