The future of the bases, which are integral to Russia's military reach in the Middle East and Africa, is in the hands of Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa. He wants to renegotiate the ...

“They have to notify us before they leave,” one of the guards said, declining to speak on record. The future of the bases, which are integral to Russia’s military reach in the Middle East and Africa, ...

A US military convoy has been forced to retreat from an area in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah after government soldiers blocked its way, amid rising popular anger at the deployment of ...

However, as US President Donald Trump has started reducing the country’s international footprint and there is no clarity of his stand on Syria, Russia has found an opening and entered into ...

Now, with those rebels in power, Moscow senses an opportunity to both expand its economic footprint in Syria and hold on to its military bases there.

HASAKAH, Syria — In a network of prisons and detention camps across northeastern Syria, the Islamic State militant group has an army in waiting, and fanatical support for its brutal regime lives on.

Russia transferred $23 million to Syria’s central bank in February to maintain its military bases in Tartus and Latakia. The payment comes as Russia seeks to strengthen ties with Syria’s transitional ...

FILE PHOTO: A Russian military vehicle heads towards Hmeimim air base in Syria's coastal Latakia ...

Alongside politics and economics, military cooperation between the two sides is expressed clearly and deeply through Turkey’s intention to establish military bases in Syria, in light of security and ...

For years, soldiers from Russia's Hmeimim Air Base in Syria roamed freely through coastal cities. War planes flew from the complex to bombard Islamist rebels fighting Bashar Al Assad's repressive ...

The future of the bases, which are integral to Russia's military reach in the Middle East and Africa, is in the hands of Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa. He wants to renegotiate the generous ...