MOSCOW- Russian President Vladimir Putin told his counterparts from Turkey and Iran on Wednesday that there was a need for peaceful dialogue between warring sides in Syria.

He also told Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan and Iran's Hassan Rouhani in a televised video conference that hot spots of terrorism still remain in Syria's Idlib and other regions.

(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Alex Richardson) ((vladimir.soldatkin@reuters.com; +7 495 775 12 42;))