Russia hasn't mass-evacuated troops and gear out of its key bases in Syria. A senior analyst said the signs would be clear — such a retreat would be difficult to hide.

In 2015. the situation in Syria started to change. Russian military intervention strenghtened the position of Assad's government. It also made things more complicated for other involved parties such ...

Russia’s deputy foreign minister and a special envoy arrived in Damascus. Theirs was the first such visit since President Bashar al-Assad fled the country, according to Russian state news.

Russian army armoured vehicles drive near the Hmeimim Air Base, a Syrian airbase currently operated by Russia, located southeast of the city of Latakia in the town of Hmeimim, Syria, Monday Dec ...

The Russian presence includes not only Hmeimim, but also Syria’s sole warm-water port in the nearby coastal city of Tartous. Assad gave Russia free use of Hmeimim and Tartous in 2017 as part of ...

Russian military personnel still in Syria are experiencing a lack of food and drinking water as an evacuation of troops and equipment continues, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of ...

5 Russian troops march past an Orthodox priest at the Hmeimim base in April 2018. The soldiers are wearing sand-colored Russian uniforms issued to some servicemen based in Syria. Ben Dubow, a ...

A Russian fighter was killed and several others wounded in Syria's northern province of Aleppo on Monday, a war monitor and a Kurdish security source said.

Russian military personnel are said to be trapped in Syria, according to military bloggers. Regime supporters, including soldiers, flee Damascus on December 8, 2024.

Russia's military intervention contributed to untold suffering for millions of Syrian civilians beginning in 2015, when the country first entered the fight on behalf of Syria's President Bashar Assad.

Russia intervened in Syria’s civil war in 2015 alongside Iran in support of President Bashar al-Assad, and helped him maintain power with brutal bombardments against rebel-held cities.