Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received Thursday Russia’s Special Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev and the accompanying delegation. The meeting reviewed bilateral ties and means of cementing Syrian-Russian strategic relations in all areas. It also tackled the developments on regional and international arena, with President al-Assad asserting that the political and ...
The Turkish president, in a phone call on Thursday with his Russian counterpart, called for concrete steps to clear northern Syria of the PKK/PYD/YPG terror group. “The concrete steps should now be taken to clear PKK/PYD/YPG terror groups, especially from Tal Rifaat, Manbij in northern Syria, near Turkey’s border,” Recep ...