NNA – Vladimir Putin met Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Moscow to discuss what the Russian leader described as an quot;escalationquot; in the Middle East, images on television showed Thursday.
The meeting late Wednesday comes at a time when Russia, which saved Assad#39;s government through its military intervention in 2015 during a civil war, could mediate to defuse tensions between Syria and Turkey. —AFP
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