Russia: We will not join “illegal“ anti-IS coalition - Russian FM spokesperon

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said from Moscow, Tuesday, that Russia was not against combatting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants in an international coalition with the United States but Moscow would not join an “illegal“ international coalition. SOT, Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson (Russian): “We repeatedly said that we are not against combatting ISIS together but we cannot join a coalition on the conditions on which it is currently based becau