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Russia has supported the administration of incumbent President Bashar al-Assad of Syria since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011: politically, with military aid, and (since September 2015) with direct military involvement. The 2015 deployment to Syria marked the first time since the end of the Cold War in 1991 that Russia entered an ...
Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war. Part of the foreign involvement in the Syrian civil war, and the war against the Islamic State. Top: Various military operations carried out via sea, air and land in Syria. Middle: Territorial map of the Syrian civil war in September 2015. Bottom: Current territorial map of the Syrian civil war.
The Russian naval facility in Tartus, Syria, was established during the Cold War under a 1971 agreement with Syria. It is Russia's only naval facility in the Mediterranean region and the only remaining military facility outside the former Soviet Union. After Russia forgave Syria 73%, or $9.6 billion, of its $13.4 billion Soviet-era debt in 2005 [29] and became its main arms supplier, Russia ...
A senior Russian military leader blamed the U.S. for the latest incident, and charged that aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition in Syria violated deconfliction protocols with Russia 10 times in ...
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 Russian military ...
The military official said a deconfliction phone line linking U.S. military personnel to Russian forces in Syria was used to let them know about the attack.
On 26 May, commander-in-chief of the Russian special forces in Syria, colonel Oleg Viktorovich Pitchvesti was killed by HTS artillery strikes on a government military post on the Al-Jeb Al-Ahmar frontline in the Latakia countryside. [4][5] Later in the day, Russian forces conducted their first airstrikes in Idlib Province since December ...
Russia has been a main backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad and joined the war in September 2015, helping tip the balance of power in his favor. Turkey is a main backer of the armed opposition.