RT News - December 9 2024 (17:00 MSK)

Russia's intelligence chief warns the fractured state of Syria casts a dark shadow on the nation's future. While terrorists take the capital, fighting erupts between foreign backed militants in the north. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad Israel marches forward though the Golan Heights, capturing a buffer zone and a nearby strategic mountain range claiming it's a temporary act for security, but suggests a bigger land grab is ahead. The nation's deposed president, Bashar al-Assad, is now in Moscow, having taken up asylum with his family. That's despite the Western press reporting his plane had been shot down.