Assad, Putin Discuss Syria Campaign

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad returned home Wednesday after making a rare trip to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin and discuss the Russian military campaign backing Assad's army that began three weeks ago. Assad is not known to have traveled abroad since 2011, the same year security forces cracked down on peaceful protests and the situation in his country spiraled into a civil war that has left at least 240,000 people dead. During Tuesday's meeting in Moscow,...

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