Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the ...

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 ...

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

Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight.

The collapse of the seemingly all-powerful Assad regime shows how fragile dictatorships are.

Our resistance, with U.S. help, has weakened Russia so Putin couldn’t come to his ally’s rescue in Syria.

Assad’s flight to Russia may be a blessing in disguise, as it could allow for more effective transitional justice in Syria.

An Associated Press journalist shot footage of an abandoned army checkpoint where uniforms were discarded on the ground under a poster of Assad’s face. Footage broadcast on opposition-linked ...

The Assad regime survived on violence and complicity. But to be sustainable in any authoritarian context, that violence cannot be wielded every single day. A new poll revealed that only 11 percent ...

By Constant Méheut With the fall of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Vladimir V. Putin has suffered one of the biggest geopolitical setbacks of his quarter-century in power. Several people ...

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