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 ...

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

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.

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being ... In a sign of the importance Russia places in its relationships in Africa, Vladimir Putin met Thursday with Touadéra in Moscow, in what were ...

Following the fall of dictator Bashar Assad ... co-operation between Russia and Mali," Ochieng told the BBC. Russian mercenaries have helped military regimes remain in control in Sahel countries, ...

Russia fears for its bases in Syria and elsewhere after the ousting of dictator Bashar Assad, a Kremlin ally ... which now look to Moscow or Russia's Africa Corps for support.

Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s sudden defeat threatened Russia’s important military presence in the eastern Mediterranean. Now Moscow is believed to be trying to negotiate a continued ...

Assad's fall, which neither Moscow nor Tehran stepped up to prevent, has brought deep implications for Russia's forces in the region. Moscow had previously relied on an airbase and a naval base ...

Vladimir Putin (right) and Bashar al-Assad shake hands in Moscow in 2015 ... Whether Assad will remain in Russia, having claimed political asylum, and if Putin has been in contact with him ...

As rebels advanced on the capital, Damascus, Russia flew Assad and his family out of the country, providing them refuge in Moscow. Saqr, in the interview, said Assad had waited several hours on ...

TYRANT Assad's desperate final plea to Putin and his nerve-racking wait to be smuggled into Russia have been revealed ... biting hours for his flight to Moscow to be secured - the second part ...