Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa.

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

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

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

In abandoning Syria’s Bashar-al Assad, Vladimir Putin showed where his interests really lie, Alexandra Vacroux writes in a ...

The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between ...

Remnants of Assad regime and its Russian backers are being ripped down, but building back the asset-stripped economy may ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin talked for more than three hours during an annual news conference in Moscow on Thursday, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would enquire about the whereabouts of Austin Tice, the American journalist missing ...

Russia's war on Ukraine dominated the opening stages of President Vladimir Putin's annual marathon press conference on ...

Russia is ready for negotiations with Zelensky but only if the Ukrainian president wins an election, Vladimir Putin said on ...

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that ...