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

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

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 ...

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

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

Trump’s lifting of U.S. sanctions on Syria marks a push to bring the country back into the Western sphere of influence following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad.

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

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 ...

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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 ...

The European Union's top diplomat says the EU will lift sanctions on Syria’s economy but keep those in place targeting the ...

Alaa Hassan was 25 years old when the uprisings against Bashar al-Assad began in Syria. He was part of the movement that grew quickly against the former president and that turned into a civil war. In ...