Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has spoken to Syria’s new leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, the first such top-level contact since ...

Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for its people after those nations backed autocratic President Bashar Assad during the long ...

Ukraine's president has discussed the idea of possibly swapping territories with Russia in future peace negotiations with President Donald Trump.

Armed opposition units in Syria launched a large-scale offensive on government troops in the Aleppo and Idlib governorates in late November 2024 ...

MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS/. Moscow is interested in bringing the situation in Syria to "national accord," which would be beneficial for the entire region, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ...

Since 2018, the notorious Russian mercenary company formerly known as Wagner has overseen security for top officials in the ...

The European Union and Canada said they were prepared to hit back after U.S. President Donald Trump decided to impose tariffs ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

Ukraine has accused Moscow of launching a deadly missile strike that killed at least four people in the dormitory of a ...

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee ...