Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in strategic locations such as the Hmeimim airbase and Tartous port on the coast, as ...

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

Later came the disclosure that Assad had arrived in Moscow. Russia was the obvious destination – Putin was a longtime ally and supported the Syrian regime with air power and other military aid.

Former Syrian President Bashar Assad was reportedly turned down after asking Russian President Vladimir Putin to help establish an Alawite statelet along Syria’s coast.. Russia rejected the ...

Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and family in Moscow after Russia granted them asylum: reports; Gunmen storm Iranian Embassy in Damascus as Russia claims Assad left ‘instructions’ to ‘transfer ...

Russia can save Bashar al-Assad by first providing him with planes to block the jihadist offensive, as it did massively in September 2015. However, that can only work if the operation is ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on July 24, 2024.

Now the biggest myth of all, the stabilisation of Syria, has been eviscerated. To add salt to Russia’s wounds, Assad’s travails are partly the product of Moscow’s own grave miscalculations.

It is unclear whether Assad's fate in Russia will follow that of other ex-dictators now there, such as former Ukrainian ...

Later came the disclosure that Assad had arrived in Moscow. Russia was the obvious destination – Putin was a longtime ally and supported the Syrian regime with air power and other military aid.