Putin’s Syria Trip Shows He’s Unfazed by Iran Tension
- Visit comes as Tehran fires missiles on U.S.-Iraqi airbases
- Putin praises troops in Syria before traveling on to Turkey
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With the world on edge over rising tensions in the Middle East, one leader seems unfazed: Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
The Russian president arrived in Damascus on Tuesday in just his second visit to Syria since the start of the country’s civil war nearly nine years ago.