The Kremlin said Monday that it continued to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after opposition fighters last week wrested swathes of territory from government control.Moscow said so after al-Assad spoke of the “importance” of his allies in facing an opposition offensive that saw the Syrian government lose control of Aleppo. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“We of course continue to support Bashar al-Assad and we continue contacts at the appropriate levels, we are analyzing the situation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, adding that Russia would draw up a “position on what is necessary to stabilize the situation.”According to monitors, Syrian and Russian aircraft staged deadly strikes in support of government forces on Sunday. Russia intervened in the Syrian Civil War in 2015, stepping into the conflict on the side of al-Assad’s government on his request. In 2016, the Russian air force helped the Syrian army