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Evening recap
14 December 2024 00:00 GMT
Good evening Middle East Eye readers,
Large numbers of Russian transport aircraft have been spotted at the Khmeimim air base, while columns of Russian military vehicles have been filmed near Syria's coast amid what appears to be a withdrawal from Syria.
Meanwhile, Syria's transition government has made its first complaint to the United Nation's over Israel's seizure of Syrian territory and attacks.
Also speaking on Friday, Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan said that the elimination of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) is a "strategic goal" of Ankara's in Syria.
Other developments:
- Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo with talks focused on Syria, MEE revealed
- The Arab League condemned Israel's seizure of a buffer zone along the Golan Heights in Syrian territory
- Syria's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led government handed over missing American citizen Travis Timmerman on Friday to American military officials