Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a telegram to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, hailing the breaking of the siege of Deir Ezzor by Syrian government troops, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters that Putin had hailed the breakthrough as “a strategic ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday congratulated the army troops who broke a years-long ISIL terrorist group siege on the government enclave of Deir Ezzor city, his office said. “Today you stood side-by-side with your comrades who came to your rescue and fought the hardest battles to break the siege ...