Moscow Hosts Regional Defense Chiefs in Fresh Sign of Turkey–Syria Thaw

Foreign ministers and intelligence officials from Turkey and Syria met in Moscow for talks brokered by Russia on Dec. 28, 2022. Barbara Angelakis

Top Turkish defense and intelligence officials and their Syrian counterparts met last week in Moscow for talks that were also attended by Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.

The Dec. 28 meeting was the first between Turkish and Syrian defense ministers in more than a decade.