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Moscow and Damascus reach deal over Russian military bases in Syria

Russian ground staff members check on a Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet at the Hmeymim air base near Latakia
Russian ground staff members check on a Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet at the Hmeymim air base near Latakia REUTERS

Syria said on Sunday that it reached a deal with Moscow on the fate of Russia's two bases in the country, which it once used to provide military support to ousted leader Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian civil war.

Syria's official SANA news agency quoted the foreign ministry as saying that Hmeimim airbase and Tartus naval base, Russia's only two official military bases outside the former Soviet Union, would be turned into "joint training and capacity-building centres, within new arrangements that preserve mutual interests".

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