Syria is fractured by competing armies but who holds power and where may be shifting as the US eyes an exit.

Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for the country’s people after the nations backed autocratic ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Moscow apartment bomb kills pro-Putin collaborator as Kyiv strikes energy plants - A pro-Russian separatist, known to be a close associate of ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, was the alle ...

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 ...

President Trump’s reversal on a spending freeze. The White House yesterday walked back President Trump’s order to freeze ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Wednesday it had held "frank" discussions with Syria's new de facto leader as it tries to retain its two military bases in the country, but it declined to comment on ...