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

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

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

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Moscow achieved its goals in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed during his annual press conference and a call-in ...

Former CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty says that Vladimir Putin spinning Russia’s withdrawal from Syria as a victory ...

Following are some of the key quotes from Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual phone-in and press conference.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin denied on Thursday that Russia's nine-year intervention in Syria had been ...

The collapse of the seemingly all-powerful Assad regime shows how fragile dictatorships are.

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

The Russian leader, who has offered Bashar al-Assad asylum, also sought to reassure citizens tired of Russia’s war on Ukraine ...

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