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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on May 19, 2018, 12:03:03 am
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All 'foreign forces' to leave Syria, Putin tells Assad
By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN
Updated 6:33 AM ET, Fri May 18, 2018
(CNN)Russian President Vladimir Putin told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Thursday that "foreign armed forces" would leave Syria, according to Syria's state-run news agency, SANA.
Assad was on a surprise visit to Russia. He and his counterpart hailed the beginning of the "political process" in Syria amid an ongoing "fight against terrorism."
"We presume that, in connection with the significant victories and success of the Syrian army in the fight against terrorism, with the onset of a more active part, with the onset of the political process in its more active phase, foreign armed forces will be withdrawn from the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic," Putin said after Thursday's meeting.
Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/middleeast/assad-putin-intl/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/middleeast/assad-putin-intl/index.html)
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You'd like that, wouldn't you two?
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You'd like that, wouldn't you two?
I wonder if Putin knows what he is talking about here. Does he really expect Hezbollah, Iran, and Turkey, to all pull stakes and just leave? Or is Putin only talking about NATO and Russian forces? I'm not sure how much power Putin has to make sure this actually happens.