Bashar Assad and his family are Alawites, and the prospect of a state has been raised for years. Some Russians have expressed ...

Russia persuaded Assad that he would lose the fight against armed groups led by the former al-Qaeda offshoot HTS and offered ...

It will have been a salutary experience for Vladimir Putin to stand by impotently as his erstwhile Syrian ally Bashar ...

Russia organised for Bashir al-Assad to flee to Moscow via its air base on the Syrian coast as rebels broke into Damascus on ...

The president-elect claimed Russia is in a "weakened state" due to the Ukraine conflict and urged Putin to negotiate.

The Kremlin’s failure to prevent Bashar Assad’s swift downfall in Syria has exposed the limits of Russia’s power and dented ...

Our columnists write how the house of cards that Vladimir Putin has so carefully stacked is folding before our eyes ...

Israeli strikes have hit suspected chemical and long-range weapons sites in Syria and the foreign minister says the aim is to ...

This time, when Bashar al-Assad started to fall, Russia was not there to catch him.

Bashar al-Assad was branded the "rat of Damascus" after fleeing to Moscow as his brutal regime collapsed. Foreign Secretary ...

The Kremlin’s failure to prevent Assad’s swift downfall has exposed limits of Russia’s power and dented its international ...

Vladimir Putin has been dealt a significant geopolitical blow with the downfall of Bashar al-Assad, whose regime in Syria the ...