The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that cooperation with the new Syrian government is “developing very actively” and could lead to Russia keeping some military bases that it feared losing when its client Bashar Assad was overthrown in December 2024.
“Within the framework of contacts with Syrian partners, the issue of Russia’s military presence in Syria is also being discussed, including in the context of a possible reformatting of the functionality of Russian military facilities,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Zakharova was particularly optimistic about prospects for the Tartus naval base, which was…
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