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On 24 July, the Russian military announced that Russia had begun to deploy military police to Syria to monitor a cease-fire in two new safe (de-escalation) zones that had been envisaged in the plan on four safe zones, tentatively agreed upon by Russia, Iran, and Turkey in May, [351] [352] and mapped out in early July by Russia, the U.S, and ...
Bashar al-Assad, Syrian President since 2000. The Syrian Civil War is an ongoing international armed conflict taking place in Syria. [24] The unrest began in the early spring of 2011 within the context of Arab Spring protests, with nationwide protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government, whose forces responded with violent crackdowns.
Syria and Russia regularly conduct joint military drills. In February 2022, the two countries conducted drills a week before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. In June 2022, the Syrian and Russian air forces conducted drills over different parts of the country including the edge of the Golan Heights. In October 2022, Syrian state media ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Syrian special forces troops performed more than 1,500 parachute jumps over the Mediterranean Sea and the Aleppo and Latakia provinces as part of training drills conducted using ...
The Russian naval facility in Tartus is a leased military installation of the Russian Navy located on the northern edge of the sea port of the Syrian city of Tartus.Up until 2017, Russian official usage classified the installation as a Material-Technical Support Point (‹See Tfd› Russian: Пункт Mатериально-Tехнического Oбеспечения, ПМТО) and not as a ...
Analysis of the military situation on the Milaja frontline in Syria on 26 August 2023. On 26 August, fighters from Ansar al Tawhid launched a large scale attack on Syrian Army forces in the village of Milaja in the southern Idlib countryside. The attack began with the detonation of a tunnel bomb and then a ground attack on the frontline.
Putin seeks military draft of 133,000 servicemen in autumn. Putin wants to wipe us off the map, Ukraine’s top tennis player warns. Putin: Russia will accomplish “all goals set” in Ukraine ...
The Syrian government's dependence on these ground forces for territorial control, a consequence of severe manpower shortages in the Syrian military, [45] gave Iran significant influence over it, to the extent that Russia and Iran had to increasingly compete for control and influence over the Syria government.