Syrian president Bashar Assad has met his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow, according to Syrian state media.
It is the first known trip abroad...
Russia has appealed to the International Civil Aviation Organisation to open a new probe into last year’s downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over...
Insurgents have fired two shells at the Russian embassy in the Syrian capital as hundreds of pro-government supporters gathered outside the compound to thank...
A Russian state-controlled missile-maker says its own investigation of last year’s crash of the MH17 airliner over rebel eastern Ukraine contradicts conclusions from a...
A senior commander in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard has been killed by Islamic State extremists on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo,...
Several of the cruise missiles that Russia fired at Syrian targets landed instead in Iran, say US defence officials.
It is unclear whether the missiles,...
Russian president Vladimir Putin has spent his 63rd birthday on the ice, playing hockey with NHL stars against Russian officials and tycoons.
Earlier Mr Putin...
Heavy fighting has broken out in central Syria as government troops backed by Russian air strikes battle insurgents, activists have said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory...
