before arriving in Syria Russia has stepped up its military withdrawal from Syria, removing vehicles and containers from its key Tartous port on the country's Mediterranean coast, analysis by BBC ...

Officials in ... as Iran and Russia. And there was little hope that anything would change, said Steven Heydemann, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle ...

Ukraine has accused Moscow of launching a deadly missile strike that killed at least four people in the dormitory of a ...

Mr Yavorskyi, 61, stood together with other anxious residents alongside rubble in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava. All ...

In his first televised speech after being appointed Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday outlined a road map for the country’s future ... Assad, Syria’s leader for nearly 25 years, ...

The upheaval in Russia's ... 300 journalists are imprisoned worldwide. Journalists are imprisoned on charges ranging from violating censorship to insulting religions and defamation. Explore the ...

The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations over the fate ...

Two Russian ships docked at Syria’s main Mediterranean port last week, in what appears to be part of a large-scale withdrawal ...

DAMASCUS -- A delegation of Russian officials arrived in Damascus on Tuesday for the first such visit to Syria since the fall ...

Russia is struggling to retain two military bases in Syria that have enabled it to project influence in the Middle East and ...

Moscow was one of Assad's key backers, intervening in Syria's civil war in 2015 in his favor. He and his family fled to Russia after his ouster by Turkish-backed rebels formerly affiliated with Al ...