Top aide to Iran's leader meets Syria's Assad, pledges support
A top aide to Iran's leader met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday, footage on Syrian state television showed, underlining firm Iranian support for Damascus as it faces mounting pressure from insurgents in a four-year-old civil war. The meeting came as insurgents in Idlib province seized an army base from the Syrian military, expanding their grip in the northwest of the country, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...
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