Alawites seeking asylum headed towards the Russian air base earlier in March. Russia has distanced itself from the ...

Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told ...

Russia has sought a rapprochement with Syria’s new rulers, including with an injection of cash for Syria’s central bank.

Russia and the United States are maintaining communication over the worsening situation in Syria, according to Moscow’s ...

Sharaa blamed pro-Assad groups backed by foreigners for triggering the bloodshed but acknowledged that revenge killings had ...

The Alawites are seen as religious deviants by the Sunni Islamists, and as remnants of the ousted regime, and their position is precarious in post-Assad Syria. During the sectarian bloodbath that ...

After a period of relative calm in western Syria, the reported attacks raised the specter of continued sectarian conflict in ...

He said he did not want to see "a rift between Syria and Russia," and that Damascus wanted to preserve its "deep strategic relations" with Moscow. At the closed briefing, Russia said the new ...

Days before the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Russia said the Syrian rebels advancing on Damascus were terrorists. Now, with those rebels in power, Moscow senses an opportunity to both expand ...