MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of ...

Vladimir Putin met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Moscow, according to a Thursday morning Kremlin announcement. Putin told Assad he wanted the Syrian leader's opinion on the situation in ...

The fall of Vladimir Putin’s ally Bashar al-Assad is “also our defeat”, according to Russian military bloggers. Russia has used Syria to establish itself in the Middle East over the last ...

If the Admiral Kuznetsov is decided not to continue repairs, it remains only to take it, cut it into scrap metal and dispose of it,” one admiral said.

The possibility of another war in the Middle East has sucked attention, energy and resources away from Ukraine.

Once hailed as a Western-friendly reformer, Bashar al-Assad transformed into one of the world’s most brutal autocrats. From chemical weapons attacks to Russian military backing, this is the ...

One by one, old allies are slipping away from Russia’s side. The war in Ukraine, now dragging into its third year, is doing ...

Putin has reportedly urged Iran to accept a U.S. nuclear deal requiring zero uranium enrichment, marking a shift in Russia’s ...

While Iran has helped ally Russia in its fight against Ukraine, there might be little that Moscow can or will do now to repay the favor.

Washington's move follows the lifting of sanctions on Damascus after the ouster of the al-Assad government in December in a ...

THE consensus after Israel’s 12-day war with Iran seems to be that it ended in humiliation – not just for the Islamic Republic, but also Russia, which failed to lift a finger for a loyal ally and lost ...