Russia’s position in the Middle East now is in peril. Moscow has lost a key ally in Assad. Its other main allies, Iran and ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual end-of-year press conference and televised call-in show on Thursday, seeking ...

Assad’s fall nine years after Russia saved his regime is a stunning blow to Putin’s goal of forging Russia into a world power ...

Syrians are now roaming through Assad’s abandoned presidential palace in Damascus, much as Ukrainians were able to visit the ...

The Kremlin’s failure to prevent Bashar Assad’s swift downfall in Syria has exposed the limits of Russia’s power and dented ...

Putin has said he will ask the deposed president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, about the U.S. journalist Austin Tice, who went missing in the country 12 years ago. “I promise to ask this question,” he ...

Moscow offered Mr Assad a safe exit if he left the country ... only as long as they are of use to Russian president Vladimir Putin. A Syrian opposition fighter in front of a provincial government ...

The military intervention allowed Assad to reclaim control of most of Syria, making the Kremlin a key power broker in the Middle East and boosting Russia’s prestige. Putin's triumphal visit to ...