Two weeks before meeting his Turkish counterpart in the Russian resort city of Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin had received Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Moscow on September 14.
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A Syrian woman reacts near the ruins of a house, destroyed in a reported regime artillery shelling, in the village of Iblin in the Jabal al-Zawiya region of Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on July 22, 2021.