Josh Cohen: Is Russia supporting Hezbollah?
A Syrian vendor sells mugs bearing portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin (R), Syrian President Bashar Assad (L) and the head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, in the popular Hamidiyeh market.
As its relationships with the United States, Europe and Turkey have deteriorated since its interventions in Ukraine and Syria, one country Moscow remained on good terms with is Israel.