The burgeoning relationship between Qatar and Russia signals that the Kremlin is not as globally isolated as the West desires ...

Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, where Russia has granted them political asylum, a source in the Kremlin told the state news agency TASS. Assad was in Damascus on Saturday and fled ...

Militants attacked a Russian air base in Syria, killing two soldiers, a Syrian government official and a local activist have ...

Less than a week after Donald Trump scripted history by rubbing shoulders with former Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorist, now Syrian ...

MOSCOW/DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow is deeply concerned by what he ...

Alaa Hassan was 25 years old when the uprisings against Bashar al-Assad began in Syria. He was part of the movement that grew ...

Trump’s lifting of U.S. sanctions on Syria marks a push to bring the country back into the Western sphere of influence ...

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Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara said Moscow has rejected his government’s plea to extradite ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad in exchange for continued Russian military presence in Syria. Al-Shara, who ...

Three sources told Reuters that Syria plans to print a new version of its currency in the UAE and Germany instead of Russia.

IMAGE: Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Syria's then president Bashar al-Assad during their meeting in Moscow's Kremlin, January 25, 2005. Photograph: ITAR-TASS/KREMLIN PRESS ...

A senior Russian military officer was killed when a car exploded on the street of a Moscow suburb as he was ... talks with then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. His potential involvement in ...