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Putin meets with Assad, observing American forces in Syria
This is the first time that Russian President Vladimir Putin has received Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in Moscow since 2015. And at his meeting on Monday (September 13), Putin criticized foreign forces that are in Syria without a mandate. of the UN, a reference to Turkish troops. “My main problem is that foreign military forces without the permission of the UN and without your sanction are present in some territories of the country. Which contradicts international law. And it does not give you the opportunity to make the most of it. efforts to consolidate the country and move forward on the path to its restoration as soon as possible if the entire territory of the country were controlled by the legal government. ” Assad thanked the Russian leader for humanitarian aid to Syria and his efforts to stop, to quote, “the spread of terrorism.” Russia is Assad’s most powerful ally in the ten-year Syrian conflict. Russia’s air force played a critical role in shifting the march in favor of Assad after he deployed there in 2015, helping him regain most of the territory lost by the insurgents. north and northwest: the last great bastion of the anti-Assad rebels. American forces are also still controlled in the east and northeast by the Kurds. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, a day after the meeting with Assad, Putin began to isolate himself after members of his entourage fell ill with COVID-19. The leader has been forced to cancel some trips abroad.