In late 2015, the Kremlin achieved a key victory when it launched a military intervention in Syria to rescue then-Syrian ...

Unfortunately, as Syria's new leader, Ahmed al Sharaa, consolidates power, Washington is standing back. Russia, though weakened by the war in Ukraine, is moving to reclaim its influence. The Soviet ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the war in Gaza erupted in 2023, governments around the world have been making their voices heard, whether they are ...

Bombing of civilians by Syrian and Russian armed forces during a campaign against the last rebel bastion in northwest Syria may amount to crimes against humanity, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) ...

Vladimir Putin, we’ve been told since the start of the war in Ukraine, has goals that extend well beyond territory: He seeks to upend the post–Cold War international order, to reconstruct the Soviet ...

Russia supplied Syria with an advanced 24-barrel multiple rocket launcher in 2013. President Barack Obama continued to give Syria and Russia an opportunity to lie through their teeth Tuesday night, ...

In December, rebel leader Ahmed al-Shaara proclaimed a new and free Syria. The former jihadist recently sat down with 60 ...

The Ukrainian president addresses the UN General Assembly after Donald Trump says for the first time that Kyiv could retake ...