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

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

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

He said he did not want to see "a rift between Syria and Russia," and that Damascus wanted to preserve its "deep strategic relations" with Moscow. At the closed briefing, Russia said the new ...

He said he did not want to see "a rift between Syria and Russia," and that Damascus wanted to preserve its "deep strategic relations" with Moscow. At the closed briefing, Russia said the new ...