What would the potential loss of Syrian naval and air bases mean for Russia? Tartus and Hmeimim served as a springboard for Moscow’s foreign missions elsewhere.

The security campaign is intended to prevent widespread lawlessness, and bring regime personnel to justice, according to ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted today that his country is still exploring its options for retaining a pair of bases ...

In the villages above the Syrian port city of Tartus they once hailed the sons who died fighting in Bashar al-Assad's service ...

The fall of the Assad regime marks a turning point in Syria’s history. But it also opens a ‘chapter fraught with peril’ for ...

Syrian rebels reportedly control most of Aleppo following their surprise offensive which left regime forces reeling. Thousands of opposition fighters in armoured vehicles have been deployed to ...

Israel said it had wiped out the vast majority of the Syrian military's assets, including huge chunks of its air-defense ...

In abandoning Syria’s Bashar-al Assad, Vladimir Putin showed where his interests really lie, Alexandra Vacroux writes in a ...

Syria’s new transitional government says there is no place for Russian presence in Syria a week after the country’s long-time ...

TUNIS, December 17. /TASS/. At least seven people, all of them civilians, suffered injuries in Israeli airstrikes on military sites in the Syrian province of Tartus, the Syrian newspaper Al Watan ...