A dry wind rushes through the meanders of destroyed streets, bringing up the acrid smell of smoke laden with gasoline. In the ...

Syria's civil war is over. Assad is gone. But a new chapter has begun, one that's raising eyebrows across the Middle East.

Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in strategic locations such as the Hmeimim airbase and Tartous port on the coast, as ...

U.S. officials said sanctions against targets such as its central bank would end, but they would remain on Syria’s former ...

In 2011, on the eve of the Syrian uprising, Russia had some $4 billion worth of outstanding weapons contracts with Damascus. An estimated 100,000 Russian citizens were still living in the country.

Russia’s main base in Syria is the airfield at Hmeimin on the Mediterranean coast, close to the city of Latakia. It’s more than just an airbase: Much of Russia’s senior military personnel ...

Russia deployed dozens of strike aircraft and jet fighters to Syria at the end of 2015, bombing in support of Syrian president Bashar al Assad’s forces.But Moscow also appears to have built up ...

The successful intervention on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad almost 10 years ago underscored Putin’s assertion that Russia was still a global power.

BEIRUT (AP) — With Russia’s war on Ukraine now in its third week, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday approved bringing in volunteer fighters from the Middle East, particularly Syria.

In Syria, he added, there is little they can do when Russian warplanes come, except hide and hope for the best. Oh, and “open your mouth,” he said with a grim laugh.

In Syria, Russia has helped and presumably will continue to help Assad repress all resistance, not just the Islamicist variety. From Moscow’s perspective, ...