An axis uniting China, Russia, Iran and North Korea—dubbed CRINK by some Western officials—has emerged from the Ukraine war, ...

Since the early 2000s, Turkey has relied on a foreign policy approach that emphasised cooperation instead of competition.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Russian President Vladimir Putin that cooperation between their two countries is ...

Rana Al-Ahmad opens her fridge after breaking fast at sundown with her family during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan ...

Even after signing the 1974 armistice agreement, Syria aligned itself with Iran and Hezbollah, continuing its aggression ...

The Kremlin has denied reports that claim Asma al-Assad is seeking a return to London following her husband's exile in Moscow. Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a ...

The fall of Assad, whom Moscow had backed for years in Syria's civil war, has dealt a heavy blow to its interests in the Middle East. Russia is trying to build relations with the new Syrian leadership ...

Moscow's private criticism of Syria's Islamist ... forces blamed on ex-army figures loyal to ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, who is Alawite. That attack unleashed widespread killings of Alawites ...

He repeated pleas for Washington to lift sanctions imposed in the Assad era. He also held out the prospect of restoring relations with Moscow, Dr Assad’s backer throughout the war, which is ...

Increased demand for the drug, in turn, kept the sanctions-hit regime afloat. Assad may have fled to Moscow, but the smuggling networks stayed put, as did captagon’s customer base. Syria’s new ...

Clashes in the country have led to the slaughter of ethnoreligious minorities dismissed as pro-Assad elements by the EU Russia and the US are maintaining contact over the worsening situation in Syria, ...