Russia’s abandonment of the Assad regime to marshal more resources for the fight against Ukraine vividly illustrates that ...

Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa.

When his Russian bosses and the mercenaries protecting them finally left, Homam Kasouha walked into the plant’s head office ...

Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a stronger military presence in the continent following the ...

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Although Putin tries to portray himself as a realist, he has become consumed with Ukraine, to the exclusion of almost all ...

Former CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty says that Vladimir Putin spinning Russia’s withdrawal from Syria as a victory ...

Although Russia might have found it difficult to commit large numbers of its own troops to Syria, it could certainly have ...

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that ...

The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between ...

At his end-of-year news conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would ask Bashar al-Assad, Syria's deposed ...

In his first comments on Assad’s downfall, Putin said that he hadn’t yet met the former Syrian ruler, whom he has given ...