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Russian President Vladimir Putin Meets Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Kremlin

Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (Valery Sharifulin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (Valery Sharifulin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin Meets Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Kremlin

Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (Valery Sharifulin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (Valery Sharifulin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin met President Bashar Assad of Syria in the Kremlin, video distributed by the Kremlin press service on Thursday showed.
“I am very interested in your opinion on how the situation in the region as a whole is developing,” Putin said to Assad. “Unfortunately, there is a tendency towards escalation, we can see that. This also applies directly to Syria.”
The Kremlin said Putin and Assad's meeting took place Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.
Putin and Assad last met in March 2023 in the Kremlin on the anniversary of Syria’s 12-year uprising-turned-civil war. At that meeting, Putin emphasized the Russian military’s role in stabilizing the country.
Russia has waged a military campaign in Syria since September 2015, teaming up with Iran to allow Assad’s government to fight armed opposition groups and reclaim control over most of the country. While Russia now concentrates the bulk of its military resources in Ukraine, it has maintained a military foothold in Syria and keeps troops at its bases there.
“Considering all the events that are taking place in the world as a whole and in the Eurasian region today, our meeting today seems very important," Assad told Putin via a Russian translator.

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Hezbollah Launches Hudhud 3… Lebanon’s Losses from War with Israel Estimated at $2 Billion

Smoke rises from the town of Tayr Harfa targeted by an Israeli shelling (AFP)
Smoke rises from the town of Tayr Harfa targeted by an Israeli shelling (AFP)
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Hezbollah Launches Hudhud 3… Lebanon’s Losses from War with Israel Estimated at $2 Billion

Smoke rises from the town of Tayr Harfa targeted by an Israeli shelling (AFP)
Smoke rises from the town of Tayr Harfa targeted by an Israeli shelling (AFP)

Hezbollah on Wednesday broadcasted filmed episodes taken by its Hudhud 3 drone that it said showed an Israeli airbase in the north, sending a new threat to Tel Aviv.
A spokesman for the Israeli military said in a statement on X that the video was filmed by a surveillance drone and the base’s operations were not affected.
The video of Israeli air base Ramat David was more than eight minutes long and, Hezbollah said, mostly shot on Tuesday. Ramat David is one of the most important air bases and the only in the North of Israel.
The party also said that the video coincides with the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, where he addressed the Congress, and that it may be the first time that the airspace of a key Israeli air base is violated.
“Hezbollah drone carried out its mission and returned to its bases safely, leaving the Israeli military circles perplexed,” the party’s media said.
Amidst the exchange of threats between Israel and Hezbollah, the Canadian Embassy in Lebanon indicated on Wednesday in a letter addressed to Canadians, permanent residents and their family members in Lebanon, that “the situation in Lebanon is volatile and unpredictable due to the recent and ongoing events in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.”
It pointed out that “Canadians, permanent residents, their wives and children must depart where commercial flights are available.”
Also on Wednesday, MP Wael Abu Faour shed light on the “massive losses” at the human, health, agricultural and environmental levels due to the Israeli attacks on south Lebanon, noting that these losses have been initially estimated at $2 billion by the concerned Lebanese institutions.
“This is a new challenge for the Lebanese state,” he said following a meeting between the Parliamentary Committee of Foreign Affairs and European ambassadors to Lebanon.
Abu Faour then affirmed that the state cannot abandon its responsibility towards the citizens.
“We need a clear plan and an organized diplomatic and political effort to handle the results of the Israeli attacks as soon as possible,” he underlined.

Ever since the start of the Gaza war last October, Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged daily barrages of rockets, artillery, missile fire and air strikes in a standoff that has just stopped short of full-scale war.
Tens of thousands have been evacuated from both sides of the border.
Israeli strikes have killed nearly 350 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon and more than 100 civilians, including medics, children and journalists, while 10 Israeli civilians, a foreign agricultural worker and 20 Israeli soldiers have been killed.