(ANSAMed) - BEIRUT, MARCH 15 - On the day of the 12th anniversary of the beginning of armed violence in Syria, the Syrian president, Bashar al Assad, met his Russian colleague, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow.
The rais of Damascus arrived in the Russian capital last night and this morning, as reported by the Syrian government agency Sana, he went to the tomb of the unknown soldier in Moscow before being received by Putin.
Russia is a close strategic ally of Syria.
The alliance between the two countries dates back to the times of the Soviet Union.
In the context of the Syrian conflict, which has escalated over the past 12 years following the outbreak of government repression of popular anti-regime protests in March 2011, Russia intervened militarily in Syria in October 2015. Assad's visit to Moscow
was according to analysts, it will focus on the issue of the thaw, mediated by Russia, between the Syrian and Turkish central governments after a decade of open hostility.
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