VLADIMIR Putin has thrown a ring of steel around exiled dictator pal Bashar al-Assad as the tyrant marks his first ...

Ironically, however, the U.S., Israel, Europeans, the UAE and some other Arab states also want to save Assad, and so the only ...

From exile in Moscow, ex-intel chief Kamal Hassan and Assad cousin Rami Makhlouf are spending millions in competing efforts to build fighting forces to lead a revolt along Syria’s coast. The ...

Syria is open to allowing Russia to hold onto two key military bases after Bashar Assad's ousting. Syria's new defense minister said that relations with Russia, which supported Assad, have improved.

From the start of Syria’s civil war, Turkey and Russia found their interests in the country diverging, with Ankara supporting the armed rebels seeking to overthrow the regime of former President ...

Visit followed trip by Mick Wallace and Clare Daly in 2017 that was arranged by Irish activist who writes for sanctioned ...

Sources familiar with developments in Syria reveal to Newsweek the root of the unlikely partnership between Trump and Sharaa.

The phone line from Moscow to Syria is shaky, giving off static and a faint echo, and it does not help that Russian official Andrei Klimov sounds exhausted. He is cagey about his exact location in ...

The Syrian government has not said whether it will allow the investigation. Aug. 23, 2013 — -- MOSCOW -- Russia is urging the Syrian government to allow U.N. inspectors to investigate claims of a ...

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 ...

The notion of Syria giving up its chemical weapons, or at least putting them under foreign control, has long been on the table in the consultations between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government ...

New report suggests Russian military may have targeted Aleppo hospitals. — -- A new report released Monday provides fresh evidence that Russian and Syrian government forces repeatedly targeted ...