Moscow claims it has destroyed the combat capability of the main terrorist groups in Syria.
President Vladimir Putin says his recent air strikes have broken...
Russia's defence minister says the country will have a military unit permanently stationed in the Arctic by 2018.
The Kremlin announced its intentions to bring...
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,...
