Syria, Moscow and al-Assad

The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between ...
HMEIMIM AIRBASE, SYRIA — The Sukhoi fighter aircraft punched through the clouds, its growl echoing over Russia’s Hmeimim ...
During Vladimir Putin’s year-end press conference on Thursday, NBC journalist Keir Simmons asked him about Russia’s role in ...
In his first comments on Assad’s downfall, Putin said that he hadn’t yet met the former Syrian ruler, whom he has given ...
The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...
Syria's former President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow with his family after Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian ...
Moscow achieved its goals in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed during his annual press conference and a call-in ...
For much of the past decade, Assad’s regime, bolstered by unwavering support from Iran and Russia, brutally suppressed ...
The sudden collapse of the long-established Assad family dictatorship in Syria changes the balance and constellation of ...
Bashar al-Assad’s central bank airlifted around $250mn in cash to Moscow in a two-year period when the then-Syrian dictator ...
MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for meeting with him in Russian. "Thank you very much for this evening," he said in Russian, as ...