Russia then turned its attention closer to home – it invested efforts to destabilise countries in its near neighbourhood by ...

Russia’s army on Tuesday said that it had launched hypersonic missiles during naval and air force drills in the eastern ...

Fighters from a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led coalition battled Syrian government forces in northeast Syria early on Tuesday, both ...

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But Russia’s commitment to Syria has not actually wavered, and Russia is not really distracted. The advance of Syria’s rebels ...

However, much has changed in the years since Putin's intervention in Syria's civil war. The Russian president's invasion of ...

Islamist-led rebels advanced on Syria's fourth-largest city Hama Tuesday, buoyed by their lightning capture of swathes of the ...

The rebel coalition consists of "well-established armed Islamist factions who, despite their differences, are united in ...

Abdulkafi is one of several people inside Aleppo who have spoken to the BBC since the city was captured by the armed rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allies from forces loyal to President ...

As the anti-Assad rebel forces’ surprise counteroffensive against regime forces stretches into its fifth day, Russia and ...

Syrian opposition rebels are making bigger gains in the Hama province, capturing at least 20 towns and villages amid their ...

Syrian insurgents seized four towns on Tuesday in a big push toward the central city of Hama, opposition activists reported.