The area is a linchpin of the wider region’s defence and war trackers have expressed concern that should it fall, it could pave the way for Russia to seize swathes of more territory.

And despite the very real threat that the civil war posed to his rule for many years, it had seemed the war was over and Assad was the victor. The regime’s fall triggered a kaleidoscope of ...

At a gathering of Turkish diplomats in Ankara, Fidan was asked whether Turkey was planning to reopen its embassy in the Syrian capital, which closed a year into the civil war that began in 2011.

Syria's long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents took control of Damascus over the weekend and toppled the 50-year Assad regime. On Tuesday, Syria's new interim leader ...

Russia has said the Ukraine war will continue until it meets its aims - either on the battlefield or via negotiations - as its spy chief claimed it was close to achieving them. President Putin ...

After years of civil war that followed Assad's brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters in 2011, rebels made dramatic advances in late November that culminated in their taking Damascus early ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an awarding ceremony in Moscow MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the Ukraine war would continue until the goals set by President Vladimir ...

But the latest assessments of the state of the play on the front line by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) show that Kyiv's forces have seized five settlements in the Russian region and one ...

His views give an insight into thinking at the top levels of the Kremlin - which views the West's support for Ukraine as evidence that the United States is fighting a proxy war against Russia ...

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In just two weeks, rebel forces tore across Syria, shattering the stalemate left by more than a decade of civil war and bringing an end to more than five decades of brutal rule by the Assad dynasty.

About 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died defending their homeland from invading Russian armies in the three years since dictator Vladimir Putin launched the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...