Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot terrorist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, attended an in-person meeting with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss boosting Russia’s economic presence in the country.
The visit was Sharaa’s second to Moscow since the collapse of the longstanding regime of deposed dictator Bashar Assad, a close ally of Putin’s. Sharaa first visited in October shortly after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in New York, opening the door to substantial, mutual diplomatic support. Sharaa’s HTS broke an extended stalemate in the over-decade-old Syrian civil war in 2024, first seizing the city of Aleppo then hastening the collapse of the military. Assad and his family fled the country in December 2024, receiving asylum in Moscow.
The Russian news agency Tass,
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