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

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Russian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday that Moscow welcomes the recent agreement between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Damascus, ...

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

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

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

The Alawites are seen as religious deviants by the Sunni Islamists, and as remnants of the ousted regime, and their position is precarious in post-Assad Syria. During the sectarian bloodbath that ...

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 complex to bombard Islamist rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad's repressive ...

Moscow and Washington are maintaining contacts over the escalating situation in Syria, Russia’s UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia has ...

After a period of relative calm in western Syria, the reported attacks raised the specter of continued sectarian conflict in ...