Analysis: Why Putin Picked This Moment to Pull Out of Syria - NBC News
An interesting analysis of why Putin went in, and why he's leaving. UK based think tank. One of the objectives has been met, which is to replace the Ukraine thing in the news with Russia doing something more positive.
At least 250,000 people have died,
but the UN stopped counting in 2014.
I guess that the UN no longer believes that Syrian lives matter. So be it.