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Putin meets Assad, takes swipe at US and Turkish forces in Syria

Putin meets Assad, takes swipe at US and Turkish forces in Syria

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has met his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, for the first time since 2018 and criticised foreign forces that are in Syria without permission or a U.N. mandate - a rebuke of the United States and Turkey. Putin is Assad's most powerful ally in the decade-long Syrian conflict; his deployment of Russia's air force in 2015 helped to turn the tide in Assad's favour, allowing him to recover most of the territory lost to insurgents. However, Turkish forces are now present in much of the north and northwest, helping to shore up the last major bastion of…
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