Syria wants Turkish withdrawal to revive security agreement

DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria called on Turkey on Saturday to withdraw its troops from Syria's northern territories and end support for armed opposition groups in order to revive a two-decade-old bilateral security agreement. Russia has encouraged Turkey and Syria to refer to the 1998 treaty to deal with security concerns along their shared borders in the wake of a planned U.S troop withdrawal from northern Syria. It wasn't immediately clear if and how Moscow would reconcile differences between Turke