During a "Direct Line" Q&A session combined with his annual press conference on Thursday, Putin clarified that he had not yet met with Assad after his arrival in Moscow but plans to speak with him ...

Senior U.S. diplomats visit Damascus, as Washington and Brussels weigh lifting sanctions against the country’s transitional ...

Transitions between administrations often become quiet periods of several months for hostage cases. But after 12 years in ...

The U.S. military killed ISIS leader Abu Yusif and another member in an airstrike conducted in Syria on Thursday, U.S.

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad fell amid complex geopolitical shifts, not because America and her allies are imperialists ...

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

The collapse of the Assad Regime in Syria is the latest in a series of political and military defeats that have staggered the ...

To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

A senior US diplomat told Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday that Washington was scrapping a reward for his arrest, ...

Ahmad Sharaa, the head of the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, will have real success by not making the same ousted ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused "ethnic Jews" of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church, calling them "godless" and ...