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Putin Offers Cooperation to Syrian Leader, Backs Efforts to Stabilize Country

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow, Russia, 18 March 2025. EPA/MAXIM SHEMETOV/POOL
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow, Russia, 18 March 2025. EPA/MAXIM SHEMETOV/POOL
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Putin Offers Cooperation to Syrian Leader, Backs Efforts to Stabilize Country

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow, Russia, 18 March 2025. EPA/MAXIM SHEMETOV/POOL
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow, Russia, 18 March 2025. EPA/MAXIM SHEMETOV/POOL

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message to Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa supporting efforts to stabilize the situation in the country and saying Russia is ready to engage in "practical cooperation", Russian state news agency TASS reported on Thursday.

Putin confirmed "Russia's continuing readiness to develop practical cooperation with the Syrian leadership on the whole range of issues on the bilateral agenda in order to strengthen traditionally friendly Russian-Syrian relations," it quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying.

Syria has been rocked by a wave of sectarian killings. The Kremlin said earlier this month it wanted to see a united and "friendly" Syria because instability there could affect the whole of the Middle East.

Russia, which has two strategically important military bases in Syria, was one of the main supporters of former President Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Russia after he was toppled in December.

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One Killed in Israeli Drone Strike in South Lebanon

Lebanese security forces set up a checkpoint on the road leading to the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Baawerta (Baaouerta), near the coastal town of Damour, about 20 kilometres south of Beirut, on April 22, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
Lebanese security forces set up a checkpoint on the road leading to the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Baawerta (Baaouerta), near the coastal town of Damour, about 20 kilometres south of Beirut, on April 22, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
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One Killed in Israeli Drone Strike in South Lebanon

Lebanese security forces set up a checkpoint on the road leading to the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Baawerta (Baaouerta), near the coastal town of Damour, about 20 kilometres south of Beirut, on April 22, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
Lebanese security forces set up a checkpoint on the road leading to the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Baawerta (Baaouerta), near the coastal town of Damour, about 20 kilometres south of Beirut, on April 22, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

An Israeli drone strike on a Lebanese border town on Sunday killed one person, Lebanon's health ministry said.

The ministry reported in a statement "one martyr" from "the drone strike launched by the Israeli enemy on the town of Halta,” in southern Lebanon.

Local media said the man was killed while working on his chicken farm.

Israel has continued to carry out regular strikes in Lebanon despite the November truce that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah, including two months of all-out war.

A pair of Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed a leader of Jamaa Islamiya in Baawerta, on the coast south of Beirut, and one person who Israel said was a local Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon's Tyre district.