Russia: Assad’s fall is huge blow for Putin, highlighting ... - CNN
Dec 9, 2024 · Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on July 24, 2024. The world now knows the colors of Syrian...
Putin plans to meet Bashar al-Assad, says Russia not defeated in …
Dec 19, 2024 · President Vladimir Putin says Russia has not been defeated in Syria after rebel groups ousted his ally and longtime leader, Bashar al-Assad, earlier this month. In his first public comments on the ...
Vladimir Putin let Bashar al-Assad's regime fall in Syria. He was ...
Dec 14, 2024 · Vladimir Putin has lost his key anchor of influence in the Middle East with the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, but he seemingly knew it was coming and was chatting with new players in the ...
Assad’s downfall is a humbling blow to Russia. How will it affect Putin …
Dec 9, 2024 · Almost exactly seven years ago, President Vladimir Putin stood with Russian troops at their air base in Syria and proudly declared victory over “terrorists” in that country as part of the Kremlin’s military intervention to prop up the government of Bashar Assad amid a civil war.
Bashar al-Assad and family granted asylum in Russia: reports
Dec 8, 2024 · Ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad has fled to Russia after Islamist rebels rolled into the capital Damascus and ended his despotic family’s 50-year reign of terror. Assad, who inherited...
Russia's Putin hosts Syria's Assad in the Kremlin as tensions rise in ...
Jul 25, 2024 · Russian President Vladimir Putin met President Bashar Assad of Syria in the Kremlin, video distributed by the Kremlin press service on Thursday showed. Putin told Assad he was concerned that tensions are rising in the Middle East, but neither leader provided further details on their talks.
Putin Meets With Syrian President Assad in Moscow
Jul 25, 2024 · President Vladimir Putin met with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Moscow to discuss what the Russian leader described as continued "escalation" in the Middle East, state media...
Putin and al-Assad meet as Middle East tensions continue to rise
Jul 25, 2024 · Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Moscow to discuss issues affecting their countries, according to images released by the Russian authorities on...
How Russia Is Spinning Its Syria Debacle, And Why - Radio Free …
Dec 10, 2024 · About seven months earlier, Russia had launched a major campaign of air strikes, a military intervention that was instrumental in saving Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from potential defeat...
Vladimir Putin's new calculus on Syria - New Statesman
Dec 12, 2024 · Vladimir Putin bet on Bashar al-Assad’s murderous rule. Now Russia is shifting course. In the early hours of 8 December, as Syrian rebels swept towards Bashar al-Assad’s presidential palace in Damascus, an Ilyushin Il76 transport plane quietly departed the capital, veering northwest, before vanishing from the radar.