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

This happened while you were sleeping. Here’s what world agencies reported overnight from Monday to Tuesday. Hundreds of ...

Assad’s wife have addressed divorce rumours amid calls for her UK passport to be scrapped. It comes as the deposed Syrian ...

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

Vladimir Putin has been conspicuously silent about Syria since the end of Bashir Assad's rule. Analysts say it points to ...

The Ursa Major, a 466ft vessel owned by the Russian defence ministry, has sunk in the Mediterranean after an 'explosion' on board - it is thought to have been on a secret mission to Syria ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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