{"id":80814,"date":"2025-10-15T13:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=80814"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:34:03","slug":"putin-to-meet-ahmed-al-sharaa-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/putin-to-meet-ahmed-al-sharaa-in-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin to meet Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President<a title=\"Scholz speaks to Putin on the phone for the first time in two years\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?s=putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Vladimir Putin<\/a> will hold talks on Wednesday in Moscow with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the Kremlin announced. The visit, described as a working-level meeting, marks the first official visit from Syria since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad last year, who has been living in exile in Russia.<\/p>\n<h3>Al-Sharaa to demand Assad\u2019s handover<\/h3>\n<p>Syrian government sources confirmed that al-Sharaa will call for the extradition of Bashar al-Assad during his talks with Putin. An official speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl-Sharaa will ask the Russian president to hand over all individuals in Russia who have committed war crimes \u2014 most notably Bashar al-Assad.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Military bases and economic ties also on the table<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A Syrian foreign ministry official stated that the agenda would include \u201ceconomic and political cooperation, as well as the status of Russian military bases in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Tartus naval base and Hmeimim airbase on the Mediterranean coast remain Moscow\u2019s only official military outposts outside the former Soviet Union. During its 2015 intervention in the Syrian civil war, Russia heavily relied on these bases to support Assad\u2019s forces through intense aerial bombardments on rebel-held areas.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Russia\u2013Arab summit postponed<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Al-Sharaa had been expected to participate in a Russia\u2013Arab summit scheduled for Wednesday in Moscow. However, the Kremlin announced that the summit was postponed, as several Arab leaders due to attend were occupied with implementing the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire plan, which came into effect last Friday.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>New Syrian leadership seeks balanced relations with Moscow<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Syria\u2019s new Islamist administration is seeking to maintain peaceful and pragmatic relations with Russia, despite Moscow\u2019s long-standing alliance with Assad.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani became the first senior official of the new government to visit Russia. Earlier, in January, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov led a delegation to Damascus \u2014 the first Russian mission since Assad\u2019s ouster.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Putin vs Others with Food....!!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5CjugiUTm7c\" width=\"315\" height=\"576\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks on Wednesday in Moscow with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the Kremlin announced. The visit, described as a working-level meeting, marks the first official visit from Syria since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad last year, who has been living in exile in Russia. Al-Sharaa to demand Assad\u2019s handover Syrian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":80815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[80081,24656,44299,80083,11381,2761,6134,599,9002,80082],"class_list":["post-80814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-ahmed-al-sharaa","tag-assad","tag-extradition","tag-hmeimim","tag-meeting","tag-moscow","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-tartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80816,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80814\/revisions\/80816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}