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 ...

The Russian leader sought to project strength and ease at his annual news conference and call-in show Thursday.

It is his [Putin’s] decision,” he said. But Assad may not need too much support ... s abandoned dacha fitted with golden taps and fine art. Akayev, a former professor, has simpler tastes ...

President-elect Trump criticizes Putin for abandoning Assad amidst the Syrian rebel takeover ... Rebels fired into the air in triumph, while youths tore down posters of the Syrian president ...

Rebel forces swarmed Assad’s presidential palace to find valuables including pills and a signed poster of the late Queen ... asylum on the direct orders of Putin but disclosed no further ...

There will not be any cosy dinners at the Kremlin, but Bashar al-Assad may still be quaffing champagne and slurping caviar in ...

Syria joined the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 2013 following international outrage over a gas attack on civilians.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov announced Monday that President Vladimir Putin would grant his ... of his rule -- and 50 years of Assad family rule. Posters and statues of Assad, his brothers ...

His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in ... As the Syrian army retreated, jubilant crowds tore down posters of Assad, marking the rapid disintegration ...