Syria’s new authorities have arrested a military justice official who under ousted president Bashar Assad issued death sentences for detainees in the notorious Saydnaya prison, a war monitor said ...

North Koreans suffering mass casualties, says US as Zelensky set for £1bn arms boost - South Korea, Ukraine and the US ...

Unrest is brewing in Syria’s coastal plains, home to the Assad family’s Alawite sect. Earlier this week, a group of regime loyalists staged an ambush on the now-governing rebel forces, killing 14.

Russia’s Vladimir Putin is scrambling to conquer as much territory as possible ... In the most surprising development of all, ...

US president-elect Donald Trump’s surprise threat to retake control of the Panama Canal and his expansionist declaration that ...

She was once fawned over for her good looks and sharp mind, but is now seen as an accomplice to her husband’s cruelty. Claudia Cockerell on the fall of Syria’s first lady ...

I've been closely following the labyrinthine chaos in the Levant for most of my adult life now and I honestly didn't see this ...

Muslim armies, advancing north from the Arabian Peninsula, were able to easily enter Damascus from its east gate, which was ...

Five ex-USSR countries maintain military alliances with Russia. Moscow also is engaged in transactional military partnerships ...

The family drama surrounding fallen Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad took a new twist Thursday as his wife was reported to be ...

Russia’s abandonment of the Assad regime to marshal more resources for the fight against Ukraine vividly illustrates that ...

Although Putin tries to portray himself as a realist, he has become consumed with Ukraine, to the exclusion of almost all ...