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Moscow has urged the United Nations (UN) to adopt a Russian-drafted resolution targeting propaganda used by extremist groups to radicalize people around the world.

\nIn 2005, the UN Security Council, of which Russia is a member, had passed a resolution calling for measures to \u201cprohibit by law incitement to commit a terrorist act or acts\u201d and to \u201cprevent such conduct.\u201d
\n\u00a0On Monday, however, Russia\u2019s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin announced Moscow\u2019s proposal, saying, \u201cThe nature of the threat has changed dramatically\u201d and that an updated resolution was needed.
\n\u00a0He added that the Russian proposal was \u201caimed at countering terrorist ideology and violent extremist ideology\u201d and was floating a UN role in implementation and international cooperation, the exchange of information, and assistance in tackling the issue.
\n\u00a0At the same time, the envoy said, the world had to form a united front, especially across the cyber world, against such vicious groups as al-Qaeda, al-Nusra Front, and Daesh.
\nDaesh unleashed a campaign of terror in Syria and Iraq in 2014. Syria had already found itself in the grips of a foreign-backed militancy three years before, while, in Iraq, the rise of the group was largely attributed to the chaos that followed the US\u2019s 2003 invasion in the name of \u201cwar on terror.\u201d
\nMilitants rest during clashes with government forces in Ramussa, on the southwestern edges of Syria\u2019s northern city of Aleppo, August 6, 2016. (Photo by AFP)
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\nDismissing France draft resolution
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\nChurkin, the Russian UN envoy, also dismissed a proposal forwarded by France to the Council a day earlier for a renewed ceasefire in the northwestern Syrian city of Aleppo and a ban on overflights.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m not even sure many other Council members would like to see a resolution on cessation of hostilities that has no chance of working,\u201d he said. \u201cIf the only effect of that resolution is that the secretary general will start thinking of some monitoring mechanism, which is not going to work in the first place, then there is not much sense in having that resolution.\u201d
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\nThe official, meanwhile, said what had to be prioritized was the fight against extremists.
\n\u00a0
\nRussia and the United States had mediated a truce in Syria, which ended last month. It did manage to bring about relative calm, but violence began to creep back later when a US-led airstrike killed more than 80 Syrian soldiers, who had been fighting the Takfiri terrorists in the eastern parts of the country.
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\nDamascus says Washington deliberately targeted the Syrian soldiers. The US says it happened by mistake.
\n\u00a0The US and dozens of its allies have been conducting an aerial bombardment campaign targeting alleged Daesh positions in Syria and Iraq since 2014, without achieving much.
\n\u00a0
\nTrading diplomatic barbs
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\nAlso on Monday, Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reacted to an earlier move by the US to suspend participation in bilateral channels with Moscow over Syria, calling the decision regrettable.
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\n\u201cWe regret this decision by Washington to curtail the work of the specialist groups in Geneva to withdraw their experts and to limit contacts only to the area of avoiding any conflicts,\u201d Zakharova said.
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\nThe US had accused Russia of not living up to its commitments under the ceasefire agreement by stepping up airstrikes in Aleppo.
\n\u00a0
\nZakharova said Washington was trying to shift responsibility for the failure of the ceasefire to Russia.
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\n\u201cWashington simply did not fulfill the key condition of the agreement to improve the humanitarian condition around Aleppo,\u201d she said.
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\nThe conflict in Syria has killed over 400,000 people, according to an earlier estimate by UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura.
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\nOn the ground in Syria
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\nIn a separate development, anti-Damascus militants carried out mortar attacks against the northwestern province of Aleppo and the southwestern city of Dara\u2019a in Syria, killing 10 people.
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\nThe official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said the first attack mostly killed and injured women and children, while the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the second one killed a pregnant woman and three children among others.
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\nSANA also reported that 20 Takfiri terrorists had been killed in Dara\u2019a in government operations on the ground.
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