Syria: Putin holds talks with Assad at new Russian command centre

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin at the new command centre of Russian military forces in Syria, in Damascus on Tuesday. Putin arrived to the facility straight from the Damascus airport alongside Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. The delegation was welcomed and shown around the new facility. Then the two presidents listened to a report by the head of Russian military forces in Syria, Aleksander Chaiko. Assad and Putin then discussed the situation in northern