When Moscow’s long-time Syrian ally, Bashar al-Assad, was overthrown by Islamist opposition forces last December, speculation immediately arose that Russia would soon lose its naval and air bases in Syria. The large-scale movement of Russian military equipment out of its Hmeimim air base and redeployment to eastern Libya in December 2024 indicated that Moscow itself anticipated the loss of these Syrian bases. But after the new Syrian leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, stated during his October 2025

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