Syria denies meeting with Lebanon’s Hezbollah in Turkey: What to know

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The Syrian government denied reports that its officials met Hezbollah representatives in Turkey. Relations remain strained, largely because Hezbollah supported Bashar al-Assad’s forces during Syria’s civil war.

The Syrian government denied reports that Syrian officials met with Hezbollah representatives in Turkey, as relations between the two sides remain fraught with tensions mainly over the Lebanese group’s support for Assad’s forces against rebels during the Syrian civil war.