Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a stronger military presence in the continent following the ...

Assad’s wife have addressed divorce rumours amid calls for her UK passport to be scrapped. It comes as the deposed Syrian ...

For decades, Russia has been trying to rebuild its influence in the Middle East. But after the rapid collapse of the Assad ...

When his Russian bosses and the mercenaries protecting them finally left, Homam Kasouha walked into the plant’s head office ...

Vladimir Putin has been conspicuously silent about Syria since the end of Bashir Assad's rule. Analysts say it points to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin denied on Thursday that Russia's nine-year intervention in Syria had been a failure, but ...

The Ursa Major, a 466ft vessel owned by the Russian defence ministry, has sunk in the Mediterranean after an 'explosion' on board - it is thought to have been on a secret mission to Syria ...

In an hourlong televised meeting with his top military brass, Vladimir Putin left Syria unmentioned and made it clear that ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has led to the freeing of tens of thousands of prisoners from the country’s brutal and ...

The Russian president, in a marathon annual news conference, said that he had not yet met with Bashar al-Assad, the ousted ...

Although Russia might have found it difficult to commit large numbers of its own troops to Syria, it could certainly have ...