Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told ...

The Alawites are seen as religious deviants by the Sunni Islamists, and as remnants of the ousted regime, and their position ...

A second tanker under U.S. sanctions is moored near the Syrian port of Banias and may deliver a diesel cargo from Russia, data shows, as Moscow and Damascus strengthen ties.

Sharaa blamed pro-Assad groups backed by foreigners for triggering the bloodshed but acknowledged that revenge killings had ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

A second tanker under U.S. sanctions is moored near the Syrian port of Banias and may deliver a diesel cargo from Russia, data shows, as Moscow and Damascus strengthen ties.

For years, soldiers from Russia's Hmeimim Air Base in Syria roamed freely through coastal cities. War planes flew from the ...

David McCloskey’s third spy thriller, “The Seventh Floor,” is as gripping and suspenseful as his two earlier novels.

Russia has sought a rapprochement with Syria’s new rulers, including with an injection of cash for Syria’s central bank.

As such, the country's leaders are willing "to make peace, even with their former enemies," one Damascus-based diplomat told Reuters. "Moscow still has something to offer for Syria," and is too ...