• A man rides a motorcycle past cement blocks bearing flags of Ukraine (Center) and the Syrian opposition with inscriptions, one in Cyrillic (L) which reads 'Slava Ukraini' ('glory to Ukraine'), a Ukrainian national salute, and another in Arabic which reads 'glory to free Syria,' near the Syrian rebel-held city of al-Bab in the northern Aleppo governorate, on Feb. 28. | AFP-JIJI
    A man rides a motorcycle past cement blocks bearing flags of Ukraine (Center) and the Syrian opposition with inscriptions, one in Cyrillic (L) which reads "Slava Ukraini" ("glory to Ukraine"), a Ukrainian national salute, and another in Arabic which reads "glory to free Syria," near the Syrian rebel-held city of al-Bab in the northern Aleppo governorate, on Feb. 28. | AFP-JIJI

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Washington – Russia is recruiting Syrians and other foreign fighters as it ramps up its assault on Ukraine, the Pentagon said Monday.

Moscow entered the Syrian civil war in 2015 on the side of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and the country has been mired in a conflict marked by urban combat for more than a decade.

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