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

For decades, Russia has been trying to rebuild its influence in the Middle East. But after the rapid collapse of the Assad ...

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

The Russian leader, who has offered Bashar al-Assad asylum, also sought to reassure citizens tired of Russia’s war on Ukraine ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin denied on Thursday that Russia's nine-year intervention in Syria had been a failure, but ...

In an hourlong televised meeting with his top military brass, Vladimir Putin left Syria unmentioned and made it clear that ...

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The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has led to the freeing of tens of thousands of prisoners from the country’s brutal and ...

The Russian president, in a marathon annual news conference, said that he had not yet met with Bashar al-Assad, the ousted ...

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

Following are some of the key quotes from Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual phone-in and press conference.

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