Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's President Vladimir Putin with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Moscow, October 15, 2025 [Sergey Bobylyov/Pool via ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syria-Russia relations are entering a new era based on mutual respect after Syria's foreign and defence ministers met Russian ...

DUBAI, July 9 (Reuters) - Russia hopes by mid-July to have a commercial logistics hub up and running in one of two berths at the naval base it leases in the Syrian port of Tartous, while keeping a ...

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was sentenced to death by a Damascus court on Tuesday, after being found guilty on charges of murder, torture and incitement to murder. His brother Maher ...

The recent Russia-Syria basing agreement underscores Russia’s diminishing commitment to a military presence in the Middle East and Africa. On August 9, Russia and Syria signed a deal that hands Syria ...

Four Russian ships, including sanctioned cargo and tanker vessels escorted by a destroyer, entered the Mediterranean via Gibraltar on 27 August, ending the first interruption of Russia's naval ...

A Turkish soldier was killed and four more were wounded in northeast Syria on Saturday, delivering another blow to the so-called “Peace Spring” operation that Ankara launched in October. A week ...

The Russian embassy in Damascus came under shell fire on Thursday and Friday, the foreign ministry in Moscow said, blaming an attack by “terrorists.” One shell fell about 20 metres (yards) from the ...

Syria and Russia have spent the past 18 months negotiating the fate of Moscow’s military presence in Syria following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024. On Sunday, at least part ...