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

Captagon, an amphetamine-like stimulant, had been a main source of revenue for Assad. But tensions remain with Russia and ...

The son of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad posted about his family’s final days in Damascus before the rebel takeover ...

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

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

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

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.

A Syrian source familiar with the discussions told Reuters that the new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, had requested that Moscow hand over former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Russia ...

2024 [Hussein Malla/AP Photo] Published On 29 Jan 202529 Jan 2025 Russia has declined to comment on reports that Syria has demanded the return of Bashar al-Assad in return for allowing Moscow to ...

Moscow, Jan 29 (EFE ... Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed suggestions that Assad’s fall constituted a strategic setback for Russia in Syria. In December, Russia’s State Duma ...

Assad, an ally of Moscow, took refuge in Russia after his ouster in December in a lightning rebel offensive. The delegation included Russian deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov and the ...