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

Syrians are now roaming through Assad’s abandoned presidential palace in Damascus, much as Ukrainians were able to visit the ...

Assad’s fall nine years after Russia saved his regime is a stunning blow to Putin’s goal of forging Russia into a world power ...

YESTERDAY, we expressed our gratitude to Türkiye for its support of the Syrian revolution in overthrowing the regime. The ...

For many Russians, this may mark the high point of Putin’s presidency. The memory of those glory days was, nonetheless, short ...

Assad’s friends and enemies got it wrong — in all likelihood, for many reasons. But one stands out and is worth a closer look ...

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

The president-elect claimed Russia is in a "weakened state" due to the Ukraine conflict and urged Putin to negotiate.

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

Russia’s position in the Middle East now is in peril. Moscow has lost a key ally in Assad. Its other main allies, Iran and ...

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