Syrian President Assad Backs Putin On Ukraine
Syria’s president, Bashar Al-Assad, called his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and backed his position on Ukraine, the Syrian presidency said in a statement on Friday, amid Russia’s ongoing invasion. Syria has been a staunch ally of Moscow since Russia launched a military campaign in Syria in 2015 that helped to turn the tide in a civil war in favour of president Bashar al-Assad with massive aerial bombardment of opposition-held areas. Assad called Russia’s offensive in Ukraine a “historical correction....