BASHAR al-Assad packed planes with two tonnes of cash worth £200m and sent them to Russia. The tyrant cowardly escaped the ...

Russia will gradually lose its influence in Syria, but the most significant development has already occurred. The Kremlin has ...

Explosions rocked the sky above Syria as Israeli strikes are said to have targeted military sites in the country's coastal ...

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Vladimir Putin has been dealt a significant geopolitical blow with the downfall of Bashar al-Assad, whose regime in Syria the ...

Russian troops retreating from Syria were stuck on the road for two hours after their armoured vehicle got a flat tyre, it ...

Though reluctantly given sanctuary by an exasperated Putin, fallen dictator Bashar Assad may yet be leveraged in Russia's ...

We shouldn’t rescue Putin in Ukraine. After his debacle in Syria, a decisive blow can now be dealt to his imperial ambitions.

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

Military and political analysts said winning the war in Ukraine has become an all-encompassing goal for Mr. Putin. That outcome, they said, would justify to the Russian leader the conflict’s ...

The Kremlin’s failure to prevent Bashar Assad’s swift downfall in Syria has exposed the limits of Russia’s power and dented ...

The former president “is secured, and it shows that Russia acts as required in such an extraordinary situation,” Sergei ...