Syrian President Bashar al Assad said the continued presence of Russia's major naval and air bases in his country help counter the influence of Western powers in the region as the battle to crush ...

When armed factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham overthrew Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad last December, many observers believed that Russia’s days in Syria were numbered. For decades, ...

Syria holds strategic importance for Moscow and Tehran, which have both bolstered Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime at ...

Alliance officials believe Moscow's sea service is strained, having to focus on the Baltic and High North regions instead.

President Bashar al Assad said on Monday he wanted to expand business ties with Russia to help Syria cope with new U.S. sanctions on its already crippled economy that threaten to undermine military ...

The Soviet Union first established naval access at the Syrian port of Tartus in the 1970s, giving Russia its only Mediterranean port. That presence grew in 2015, when Moscow started operating the ...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) on Tuesday called on Russia to issue an official apology for its military ...

Asharq Al Awsat Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that the Syrian authorities are interested in maintaining Russian military bases on their territory. "The Syrian side is ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Tuesday sent a big delegation to Syria, headed by its top energy official, in its most visible effort yet to build relations with the government that toppled former ...

Exiled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was reportedly hospitalized in Moscow after being poisoned, according to a human rights ...

Forces supporting the Syrian government could be using Russian-made cluster munitions in airstrikes, according to the non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW). The human rights charity ...

This past summer, as the Syrian economy began to unravel and the military pressed hard against an armed rebellion, a Syrian government plane ferried what flight records describe as more than 200 tons ...