Foreign ministers from Russia and Turkey discussed holding another three-way Turkey-Syria-Russia ministers' meeting in a phone call on December 31, Turkish state broadcaster TRT Haber said, adding that the meeting could take place in the second half of January. In a sign of normalizing relations between Ankara and Damascus, Turkey's defense minister and intelligence chief met with his Syrian counterparts in Moscow in a meeting also attended by Russian officials on December 28, marking a first in the decade-long Syrian war. To read the original story from Reuters, click here.
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