Visit followed trip by Mick Wallace and Clare Daly in 2017 that was arranged by Irish activist who writes for sanctioned ...

Syria could become a flashpoint in escalating global power rivalries as the United States, China and Russia compete to win influence over the state. As the relatively new Syrian government tries to ...

From the start of Syria’s civil war, Turkey and Russia found their interests in the country diverging, with Ankara supporting the armed rebels seeking to overthrow the regime of former President ...

FILE PHOTO: A general view of commercial harbour of Syria's coastal city of Tartous MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia shipped a diesel cargo to Syria onboard a tanker under U.S. sanctions, the first ...

The phone line from Moscow to Syria is shaky, giving off static and a faint echo, and it does not help that Russian official Andrei Klimov sounds exhausted. He is cagey about his exact location in ...

MOSCOW (AP) "" Russian military jets carried out airstrikes in Syria for the first time on Wednesday, targeting what Moscow said were Islamic State positions. A U.S. official and others cast doubt on ...

Moscow — Russia's top diplomat on Thursday met with his Syrian counterpart during the first formal to Moscow by an official of the new government in Damascus since former Syrian President Bashar Assad ...

The Syrian government has not said whether it will allow the investigation. Aug. 23, 2013 — -- MOSCOW -- Russia is urging the Syrian government to allow U.N. inspectors to investigate claims of a ...

The notion of Syria giving up its chemical weapons, or at least putting them under foreign control, has long been on the table in the consultations between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government ...

New report suggests Russian military may have targeted Aleppo hospitals. — -- A new report released Monday provides fresh evidence that Russian and Syrian government forces repeatedly targeted ...

Mr Al Shara formerly led the Hayat Tahrir Al Sham rebel group that deposed Mr Al Assad and had fought Russian forces deployed to support the former president since 2017. Mr Al Assad now lives in ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat on Thursday met with his Syrian counterpart during the first formal to Moscow by an official of the new government in Damascus since former Syrian President Bashar ...