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 whatever it can. President Vladimir V.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had not been defeated in Syria and that Moscow had made proposals to the new rulers in Damascus to maintain Russia's military bases there.

Russia targeted Ukraine’s capital with ballistic missiles on Friday, December 20. A Russian morning missile strike on central Kyiv killed at least one person, wounded 12, according to the city administration.

Americans’ desire to speed up the end of the Russia-Ukraine war has ticked up, a new Gallup survey found. The poll revealed that half of American respondents now desire a quick end to the more than two-year-long war even if it means Ukraine does not recover all its territory,

Ukrainian forces struck three Russian drone control points. In total, over 200 attacks took place on the front lines, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. "Sixteen strikes on enemy troop concentration areas were carried out over the past 24 hours by aviation,