As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.

Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad were allegedly communicating before rebels took over the Syrian government in December.

Vladimir Putin is currently entangled in a major international controversy, after Syria’s former media chief and top aide to ...

Assad's request to Putin was for him to personally handle the secure aerial transportation necessary to deliver military aid ...

An Assad official claims Putin betrayed his ally by promising support that never came.

EXCLUSIVE: Both Russia and Ukraine are trying to "maximise their position" prior to the return of Donald Trump to the White ...

The call, combined with various promises of economic and constitutional support to the Islamist regime led by Hayat Tahrir al ...