Britain's PM David Cameron and Russia's president Vladimir Putin have agreed to re-start talks on finding a solution to the crisis in Syria, a statement from Cameron said on May 25.

The Russian president phoned Cameron to congratulate him on his re-election as prime minister and the two agreed that Syria talks should resume, a spokeswoman from Cameron's office said.

Past peace negotiations have failed to resolve a crisis in which Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants have seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in a 4-year civil war that has killed 220,000.

“Both leaders agreed that it is in the interest of both the UK and Russia to help find a solution to the civil war in Syria and particularly to stop the rise of ISIL,” a spokeswoman said.

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