The two countries signed 20-year cooperation pact, but despite anti-US stance there are limits to their partnership.

Washington needs a plan to create conditions for future U.S. investment to stabilize Syria — and to make sure Russia doesn’t ...

Assad's regime, Russia lost a key all in the Middle East - but it still hopes to keeps its military bases in Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting his Iranian counterpart President Masoud Pezeshkian for the signing of a broad ...

From Syria to Libya to Georgia, Putin's grip on his global empire is loosening. Thus far only Turkey and Israel benefit. Will ...

Russia's Mediterranean foothold faces uncertainty, with Tartus’s future hanging in the balance and alternative bases in Libya ...

Behrouz Esbati said he partially blamed Russia for the fall of Assad's government, in a rare break from Iran's official line ...

Russia's only known submarine in the Mediterranean Sea, the Kilo-class Novorossiysk, was spotted leaving the region last week ...

A Russian Telegram channel has claimed that Bashar al Assad may have been poisoned, sparking online speculation about the ...

A U.S. sanctions exemption for transactions with governing institutions in Syria is welcome, but "much more significant work ...

By Neil MacFarquhar For decades, Russia has been trying to rebuild its influence in the Middle East. But after the rapid collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, the Kremlin is scrambling to salvage ...

Russia’s abandonment of the Assad regime to marshal more resources for the fight against Ukraine vividly illustrates that Putin is ready to sacrifice everything for total victory in the war. Although ...