Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad were allegedly communicating before rebels took over the Syrian government in December.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia has not been defeated in Syria after rebel groups ousted his ally and longtime leader, Bashar al-Assad, earlier this month.

Vladimir Putin offering refuge to ex-Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad in Moscow is undermining Russia ’s talks to keep its forces in the wartorn country, according to British defence chiefs.

The fall of Vladimir Putin’s ally Bashar al-Assad is “also our defeat”, according to Russian military bloggers. Russia has used Syria to establish itself in the Middle East over the last ...

Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

Putin has reportedly urged Iran to accept a U.S. nuclear deal requiring zero uranium enrichment, marking a shift in Russia’s ...

The possibility of another war in the Middle East has sucked attention, energy and resources away from Ukraine.

While Iran has helped ally Russia in its fight against Ukraine, there might be little that Moscow can or will do now to repay the favor.

Following the early lead set by Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom and the Abraham Accord Arab regimes, last week the United ...

Washington's move follows the lifting of sanctions on Damascus after the ouster of the al-Assad government in December in a ...

THE consensus after Israel’s 12-day war with Iran seems to be that it ended in humiliation – not just for the Islamic ...