Bashar Assad tells British MPs Vladimir Putin will not let him ‘lose’

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad told a senior Tory that Russian president Vladimir Putin will not let him “lose”.

Bashar Assad tells British MPs Vladimir Putin will not let him ‘lose’

David Davis said the brutal leader was “polite and courteous” but “sidestepped the barrel bomb issue” when he met a delegation of MPs.

Russia last month announced it would pull its troops out of Syria in a move that surprised Western leaders.

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