Syria was thus a status symbol for the Kremlin. Putin, who sees Russia as a "great power" on par with the United States and ...

Russia’s abandonment of the Assad regime to marshal more resources for the fight against Ukraine vividly illustrates that ...

At least one person killed and six wounded as Putin launches more than 70 missiles at Ukraine on Christmas Day ...

Unrestrained regional powers jostling for control, building weapons and taking bolder risks are influencing the trajectory of world politics For years, observers and policymakers in Washington assumed ...

Asma al-Assad reportedly fled to Moscow weeks before her husband to receive cancer treatment, before the Syrian regime fell ...

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Israel are reshaping the Middle East in a possible, bigger deal involving a peace deal in ...

Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned an “inhumane” attack by Russia on Christmas Day, as he accused Vladimir Putin ’s forces of launching a vast attack on Ukraine ’s energy infrastructure. At such a ...

Asma al-Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been isolated by doctors who have given her a “50/50” chance of survival ...