Report: Syria arms imports surge thanks to Russia
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Syria imported nearly six times more weapons in 2007-2011 than in the previous five-year period, with Russia accounting for 72% of the arms supplies to President Bashar Assad's regime, an international research institute said Monday.
The report on global arms transfers by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute highlighted how Moscow continues to provide Syria with weapons even as the US, the European Union and others impose arms embargoes due to the regime's violent crackdown on protesters. (AP)
