A delegation of Russian officials is in Damascus, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported. It is the first such visit ...

The Russian cargo ships Sparta and Sparta II have begun transporting military equipment out of the Syrian port of Tartus, ...

Russia backed Assad and intervened directly in support ... as part of the renewed and urgent search for the American journalist. Asked by CNN if Carstens would travel on to Damascus, Miller ...

Russian troops, who entered Syria in 2015 to support the Assad regime during the civil ... but in the context of Russia," pro-Kremlin blogger and journalist Anastasia Kashevarova posted on Sunday.

Russia was Assad's key backer and had swept to his aid ... "I assure you it is not," he said, responding to a question from an American journalist. "We came to Syria 10 years ago so that a ...

Nicole Grajewski is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She ...

Moreover, the Russian president's lack of communication ... Hassan, a Syrian-American journalist, wrote: "Assad realized he was in trouble when Putin would not pick up his calls from Tuesday ...

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

Assad's journey brought to an end his family's dynastic rule stretching back to 1971, and signalled the start of a life in exile. Russian state media said, shortly after the fall of Damascus, that ...

Shortly after Assad fled to Russia, a deal was reportedly reached ... Paul Iddon is a freelance journalist and columnist who writes about Middle East developments, military affairs, politics ...