Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Meets Russian President Putin In Moscow

 

NBC/Reuters: Putin meets Assad, takes swipe at U.S. and Turkish forces in Syria  

Russia's air force played a critical role in turning the tide of the Syrian conflict in Assad's favor after it deployed there in 2015, helping him recover most territory lost to insurgents. 

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin received Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in Moscow for the first time since 2015 on Monday and criticized foreign forces that are in Syria without a U.N. mandate, the Kremlin said, in a rebuke of the United States and Turkey. 

Assad's most powerful ally in the decade-long Syrian conflict, Putin last received the Syrian leader in Russia in 2018 at his summer residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. 

Russia's air force played a critical role in turning the tide of the Syrian conflict in Assad's favor after it deployed there in 2015, helping him recover most territory lost to insurgents.  

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Update: I guess they had a lot to discuss .... Putin, Assad complete talks that lasted three hours — Kremlin (TASS).

 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Meets Russian President Putin In Moscow 

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