Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad were allegedly communicating before rebels took over the Syrian government in December.

Vladimir Putin is still struggling to re-assert himself in the Middle East after the fall of his ally Bashar al-Assad’s regime, according to the UK. The Russian president helped to prop up the dictator’s regime in Syria since 2015 amid years of civil war,

Assad's request to Putin was for him to personally handle the secure aerial transportation necessary to deliver military aid to suppor

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian deepened military ties between their countries on Friday by signing a 20-year strategic partnership that is likely to worry the West.

Putin said Russia regularly informed Iran about what was going on in the Ukraine conflict and that they closely consulted on events in the Middle East and South Caucasus region.

While agreement doesn't specify arms transfers between the two sanctioned countries, Putin offers aid to Tehran's nuclear program as he and Pezeshkian express hope for a Gaza truce

Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad, is expected to be a focus of questions from senators weighing her nomination to be director of national intelligence.

Their treaty may be a case of "form over substance," and its timing — after Assad's fall and before Trump's return — is key.

HASAKAH, Syria - The Kurdish forces guarding Islamic State fighters at a jail in northern Syria say they are opposed to handing the facility to the new Islamist rulers in Damascus as they brace for attacks by the ultra hardline group and monitor its attempts to re-emerge.

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was being chaperoned by Kremlin-backed mercenaries in the conflict-ridden Central African Republic (CAR),

The two countries signed 20-year cooperation pact, but despite anti-US stance there are limits to their partnership.

Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2021 to 2025, has served in Congress, as White House chief of staff under President Barack Obama, and as mayor of Chicago. He will spend the next year writing about politics and national security with a special focus on the future of the Democratic Party.