Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa.

The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between ...

Jubilant rebels bloodlessly entering the capital, a president in flight, a stunned foreign patron negotiating the evacuation ...

The collapse of the seemingly all-powerful Assad regime shows how fragile dictatorships are.

After the fall of the Assad regime, Russian cargo planes flew equipment from Syria to bases Moscow controls in eastern Libya, ...

The transfer marks the end of an era when Russia played an arguably oversized role in determining which countries could ...

With Russia’s diminished influence in Syria, Ukraine calls on Israel to reconsider its stance and provide essential defensive ...

In an hourlong televised meeting with his top military brass, Vladimir Putin left Syria unmentioned and made it clear that ...

Russia used the air base in Hmeimim and naval base at Tartus to support Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s 13-year civil war. But now ...

The former president “is secured, and it shows that Russia acts as required in such an extraordinary situation,” Sergei ...

The Tartous naval base is its only Mediterranean repair and resupply hub, and Hmeimim is a major staging post for military ...

Acting decisively now can undermine Russia’s and Iran’s positions in the Middle East and strengthen U.S. and European ...