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

What is Ukraine looking to get out of it? Some of Zelenskyy's moves are "raw power play", aimed at "rubbing the Kremlin's nose" in its failure to prevent the fall of Assad, wrote ...

Russia has lost a naval base after Syria ended an investment contract with Moscow, asserting its authority over the Tartus ...

From Syria to Libya to Georgia, Putin's grip on his global empire is loosening. Thus far only Turkey and Israel benefit. Will ...

The contract, signed in 2019, had committed Moscow to invest at least $500 million in modernizing the port. With the ...

Syria's new administration has banned all Russian, Iranian, and Israeli goods from entering the country in a new decree ...

Washington needs a plan to create conditions for future U.S. investment to stabilize Syria — and to make sure Russia doesn’t ...

The Tartus port is Russia’s sole naval base outside the former Soviet Union and has played a critical role in Moscow’s ...

Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year.

Speaking at World Economic Forum in Davos, Finland's foreign minister says she is 'pretty sure there will be peace' in ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

The Ukrainian initiative, which has seen 500 metric tons of wheat flour be delivered to the country, comes following the ...