🇸🇾🇷🇺 RUSSIA NEARS COMPLETION OF DEAL TO SECURE BASES in coastal #Syria in negotiations with Syria's new leadership that had the protection of Moscow's sites in #Hmeimim and #Tartous as an existing precondition to peaceful transfer of power.
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Moscow's Defense Ministry believes it has an informal understanding with Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), the former al-Qaeda offshoot that led the offensive to oust Assad, that it can stay at the Syrian bases...The situation could still change amid the instability in Syria - alleged anonymous Russian source to report, above.
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