{"id":12192,"date":"2017-11-30T16:58:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=12192"},"modified":"2017-11-30T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:58:53","slug":"russia-preparing-for-military-pullout-from-syria-security-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/russia-preparing-for-military-pullout-from-syria-security-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia preparing for military pullout from Syria: Security chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this photo provided by the Russian Defense Ministry, a Su-25 ground attack jet is being refueled for take-off, while technicians do a final check at Hmeimim air base in Syria on March 16, 2016. (Via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The head of Russia’s Security Council\u00a0says Moscow is already preparing to withdraw its military contingent from Syria as the counter-terrorism fight nears end in the Arab country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Preparations are underway,” Nikolai Patrushev (pictured below) told Russian media on Thursday, adding that the pullout will start \u201cwhen ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Patrushev’s remarks came one week after Russia’s Chief of the General Staff General Valery Gerasimov announced that his country may “substantially” reduce its military presence in Syria and that the project could start before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Russia will maintain two military bases and a ceasefire monitoring center in Syria as well as \u201ca number of necessary structures to keep the situation where it is now,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

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PressTV-Russia to reduce forces in Syria by year-end: Military chief<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Valery Gerasimov says Russia will reduce \u201cconsiderably\u201d the number of its sources in Syria before the end of the year.<\/p><\/div>\n

The developments followed a recent declaration of the collapse of the Daesh terrorist group in both Syria and Iraq by Major General Qassem Soleimani, who commands the Quds Force of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC),\u00a0in a letter addressed to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n

On November 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the latest victories achieved by the Syrian army against terrorists on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

During a meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Putin also expressed hope that the fight against\u00a0terrorism in\u00a0Syria would\u00a0conclude in\u00a0\u201cthe near\u00a0future” while Assad hailed Russia\u2019s \u201cvery successful\u201d aerial campaign in the Middle Eastern state.<\/p>\n

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PressTV-Putin felicitates Assad on Syrian army victories<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In a meeting with his Syrian counterpart, the Russian president hails the Syrian army\u2019s achievements in the fight against Takfiri terrorists.<\/p><\/div>\n

Russian jets have been conducting air raids against Daesh and other terror outfits\u00a0inside Syria at the Damascus government\u2019s request since September 2015.<\/p>\n

The airstrikes have helped Syrian forces advance against anti-Damascus militants, who have been wreaking havoc in the Arab country since 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  In this photo provided by the Russian Defense Ministry, a Su-25 ground attack jet is being refueled for take-off, while technicians do a final check at Hmeimim air base in Syria on March 16, 2016. (Via AP) The head of Russia’s Security Council\u00a0says Moscow is already preparing to withdraw its military contingent from Syria …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12195,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192\/revisions\/12195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}