Russian airfields are considered legitimate military targets, but Russian aircraft often explode because of technical issues, especially with global sanctions making maintenance more difficult.

Putin and his defense minister presided over a televised, annual meeting of the Russian military’s top brass. They held forth on NATO, Ukraine and issues as obscure as mortgages for service members.

Russian military bases in Syria appear to be being packed up and evacuated. If Russia relocates to Libya, experts worry the shift could impact security in the Mediterranean and unbalance the ...

Maxar satellite images on Friday show Russian military vessels preparing to depart and equipment being dismantled near the Hmeimim Air Base in Syria, several days after Syrian President Bashar al ...

Satellite images appeared to show Russian forces packing up and dismantling military equipment at one of their key bases in Syria on Friday, suggesting that it may be preparing for a military ...

Russia has begun withdrawing a large amount of military equipment and troops from Syria following the ouster of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, according to two US officials and a western ...

Credit: Chen Jimin/China News Service/Alamy Live News Irrespective of how the war in Ukraine unfolds in the coming months, Russia is set to ramp up military aerospace activities and reassert its ...

MOSCOW, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Russian forces hit military targets in Ukraine with long-range high-precision weapons on Friday in response to an attack on Russia's Rostov region this week in which ...

Omar HAJ KADOUR/AFP/AFP The collapse of Moscow ally Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government has dealt a major blow to Russia's image of global strength and laid bare the limits of its military reach ...

MOSCOW, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Russia appears to be packing up military equipment at a military air base in Syria, according to satellite images released by Maxar following rebels' overthrow of ...