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Putin hosts Syria’s Assad in Kremlin as tensions rise in Middle East
Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad in Moscow, but no details about their discussions have..
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. It is a republic that consists of 14 governorates as subdivisions. A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including the Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Assyrians, Circassians, Armenians, Albanians, Greeks, and Chechens. Religious groups include Muslims, Christians, Alawites, and Druze. The capital and largest city is Damascus. Arabs are the largest ethnic group, and Sunni Muslims are the largest religious group. Syria is now the only country that is governed by Ba'athists, who advocate Arab socialism and Arab nationalism.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad in Moscow, but no details about their discussions have..
American forces were targeted at a base in western Iraq, a US defense official said Tuesday, the second such attack on the..
In a significant escalation of the ongoing conflict, Hezbollah fighters launched a series of attacks against key Israeli military..