United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between Al Qaeda and the Islamist group leading ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have held rare face-to-face talks on the ...

Russian oil shipments from the Arctic to Syria are forecast to reach 7 million barrels this year, according to Kpler, adding that Russia has a near-total hold on Syria’s energy imports.

Russia Russia and Syria bomb Syrian Islamist rebels after surprise incursion Syrian dictator Assad could use ‘chemical weapons’ against rebels, says ex-US intel expert ...

In 2011, on the eve of the Syrian uprising, Russia had some $4 billion worth of outstanding weapons contracts with Damascus. An estimated 100,000 Russian citizens were still living in the country.

Grajewski said Russia, Syria and Iran were likely to be planning a counteroffensive because the rebels could pose a real threat to Russia’s Hmeimim and Tartus bases, particularly if they advance ...

Russia deployed dozens of strike aircraft and jet fighters to Syria at the end of 2015, bombing in support of Syrian president Bashar al Assad’s forces.But Moscow also appears to have built up ...

“If need be, Russia could quickly recruit members of these groups to fight in Ukraine,” according to Danny Makki, a Syria analyst. Joined by Iran-backed fighters from nearby Iraq, Lebanon and ...

Russian military moves inside Syria continued to escalate Friday with the arrival of fighter jets. Russia's defense minister said the recent Russian military buildup in Syria is "defensive in nature" ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hand with Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Nov. 20, 2017.

Russia's military intervention contributed to untold suffering for millions of Syrian civilians beginning in 2015, when the country first entered the fight on behalf of Syria's President Bashar Assad.