President Vladimir Putin has sent a message to Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, affirming Russia's support for Syria's ...

Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told ...

Assad's fall shifts Syria's alliances, but Russia's role endures as key player Russia's bases in Syria at heart of talks with new leaders Syria seeks debt relief, return of assets, reconstruction ...

A US-sanctioned tanker laden with more than 1m barrels of Russian oil appears headed for Syria. TankerTrackers flagged the ...

Russia wants to see a united and friendly Syria because instability there could affect the whole of the Middle East, the ...

For years, soldiers from Russia's Hmeimim Air Base in Syria roamed freely through coastal cities. War planes flew from the complex to bombard Islamist rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad's repressive ...

Days before the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Russia said the Syrian rebels advancing on Damascus were terrorists. Now, with those rebels in power, Moscow senses an opportunity to both expand ...

Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world. Those weapons were left there after the collapse of the ...

Syria’s new leadership faces allegations of mass killings, as Alawite communities endure field executions and mass ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin assured the new authorities in Damascus that Moscow supports the "Syria's territorial integrity ...

Russia has sought a rapprochement with Syria’s new rulers, including with an injection of cash for Syria’s central bank.

Fierce clashes over the past two days between security forces under Syria’s new Islamist government and gunmen belonging to ...