The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Syria's new government will decide the fate of Russian military bases based on national interests, Syrian Defense Minister ...

Amid escalating tensions in the Middle East and shocking US president Donald Trump proposal for the permanent resettlement of the more than two ...

Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on U.S.A.I.D., which many ...

Bashar-al Assad fled the country on December 8 to take refuge in the Russian capital, where he owns several luxury apartments ...

Russia lost a key ally when the Syrian President was ousted by Islamist rebels last month. NPR visited a Russian air base in western Syria to examine how Moscow will fare under Syria's new rulers.

QARDAHA, LATAKIA, Syria — There is a long, winding road leading to what was once the family home of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad just outside Latakia on Syria's Mediterranean coast.

The declining health of Russia's economy is as clear as day — or night, a finance minister said Wednesday. Elisabeth Svantesson, the finance minister of Sweden, said she and her officials were ...

The Moscow-based outlet said drug dealers increased supplies of the drug coming into Russia while also changing the way it's transported. Russia maintains a zero tolerance policy towards drug use ...

including Assad, the brutal dictator who fled Syria for Russia after opposition forces overtook Damascus in December. Gabbard’s two meetings with Assad during her three-day trip to Syria in ...

The timeline, which has not been previously reported, said that Gabbard and Bashar al-Assad met at 12:15 p.m ... about U.S. assessments regarding Russia’s and Syria’s actions.