Syria's foreign minister said on Wednesday that his country had received positive messages but wanted further reassurance ...

Vladimir Putin offering refuge to ex-Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad in Moscow is undermining Russia’s talks to keep its forces ...

Syria says it's open to allowing Russia to keep hold of two key military bases, months after rebel groups ousted Kremlin ally ...

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has spoken to Syria’s new leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, the first such top-level contact since ...

Russia's long-held military presence at Tartus fell into uncertainty after the collapse of the Assad regime last month.

Two Russian ships docked at Syria’s main Mediterranean port last week, in what appears to be part of a large-scale withdrawal ...

The Sparta II, a Russian cargo ship under U.S. sanctions, had been drifting near Tartus since Jan. 5 after leaving Baltiysk in Kaliningrad Oblast on Dec. 11.

Newly captured satellite imagery shows Russia appearing to evacuate military equipment from a key naval base in Syria. The images ... docked at the port of Tartus on Saturday after spending ...

Syria’s new government is open to allowing Russia to keep its strategic military bases in the country after the ouster of ...

The Tartus naval base and Khmeimim air base are Russia’s only military outposts outside the former Soviet Union. (Photo by Satellite image 2024 Maxar Technologies / AFP) Following the collapse of ...

Russia lost a key ally when the Syrian President was ousted by Islamist rebels last month. NPR visited a Russian air base in western Syria to examine how Moscow will fare under Syria's new rulers.