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Syrians wave flag of Russia and a portrait of President Bashar al-Assad during a rally in support of Russia in the Syrian capital Damascus, on March 25, 2022.
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Syria gets new cash shipment from Russia in sign of warming ties

The Assad regime began paying Russia to print its currency under a multi-million dollar contract agreed during the country's 13-year civil war.

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06 March, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual call-in-show and press conference at the Gostiny Dvor hall
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Russia seeks to serve as mediator between US and Iran

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04 March, 2025
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Russian missile experts flew to Iran amid clashes with Israel

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04 March, 2025
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OPEC+ to proceed with planned April oil output hike

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04 March, 2025
European leaders attend the Ukraine-focused leaders' summit, organized by the UK Foreign Ministry, at the historic Lancaster House estate in London, United Kingdom on March 02, 2025. (Photo by Murat Gok/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Europeans rally around Ukraine after Trump-Zelensky row

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02 March, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with the Ukrainian community at Ukraine House in Washington, United States on March 1, 2025. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Ukraine's Zelensky says Trump backing still 'crucial' after row

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01 March, 2025
An aerial view show the port of Syria's northwestern coastal city of Tartus on December 12, 2024. (Photo by AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian operator of Syrian port denies it has lost its contract

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01 March, 2025
Russian and US flags are seen at the US Embassy in central Moscow on November 5, 2024, at the day of US Presidential election. (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russia, US diplomats meet in Istanbul for embassy talks

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27 February, 2025
Western leaders visit Kyiv to mark 3rd anniversary of Ukraine war
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Zelensky wants peace this year on invasion's third anniversary

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24 February, 2025
Trump's stance against Zelensky is a sharp u-turn in US policy towards Ukraine
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Trump brands Zelensky a 'dictator' as clash deepens

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19 February, 2025
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'Putin win' with Russia set to maintain Syria military presence

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18 February, 2025
Russia-US talks kick off in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh
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US-Russia talks begin in Saudi, no seat for Ukraine

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18 February, 2025
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is received by Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister for Protocol Affairs Abdulmajeed al-Smari upon arrival at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh
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US's Rubio arrives in Saudi Arabia for Ukraine talks with Russia

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17 February, 2025
U.S. President, Donald Trump (L) meets Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud (L) on the sidelines of the second day of the G20 Summit at INTEX Osaka Exhibition Center in Osaka, Japan on June 29, 2019
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Trump team to start Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia

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15 February, 2025
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during the 61st Munich Security Conference on February 15, 2025 in Munich, Germany
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Zelensky calls for European army as US backing questioned

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15 February, 2025
A ship belonging to the Russian Navy flotilla arrives at the port of Havana on June 12, 2024
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UK tracks Russian ships carrying ammunition from Syria

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15 February, 2025
Stacks of Syrian pound banknotes are piled on top of each other at a currency trader's stall at a market in the city of Manbij in Syria's northern Aleppo province on January 4, 2025. (Photo by AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images)
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Syria receives local currency printed in Russia before Assad's fall

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14 February, 2025
A screen grab from a video shared by Zelensky shows the damage after a Russian drone hit the protective shelter of the destroyed fourth power unit at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine on February 14, 2025. (Anadolu via Getty)
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Russian drone 'struck' Chernobyl cover, no radiation increase: Zelensky

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14 February, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Marc Fogel back to the United States after being released from Russian custody, at the White House on February 11, 2025
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Russia frees American schoolteacher Marc Fogel after four years

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12 February, 2025
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov moderates Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual special televised question-and-answer session and year-end news conference, held in Moscow, Russia, on December 19, 2024
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Russia rejects swapping occupied territory with Ukraine

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12 February, 2025
Russia has a naval facility in Tartous and an air base in Hmeimim near Latakia [Getty]
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Russia could keep Syria military bases says defence minister

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07 February, 2025