This is important because there was already one joint naval drill with Russia and China in the past: Now there could be more.
President Bashar al-Assad (C) meeting with Iraq's Chief of Staff Othman al-Ghanimi (4th-R) and Iran's Chief of Staff Mohammad Hossein Bagheri (5th-L) in the presence of Syrian Defence Minister Ali Abdullah Ayyoub (3rd-R) in the Syrian capital Damascus (photo credit: SANA/AFP)BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
