Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household In 2011, a group of teenage boys spray-painted a warning on to a wall in ...

Bashar al-Assad passes the time playing online video games in his Moscow high-rise, according to a former military officer close to the Assad family who spoke to German newspaper Die Zeit. The ousted ...

MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/. Former Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family are in Russia solely for humanitarian reasons, to keep out of harm’s way, and rumors of his poisoning in Russia are ...

Extensive Russian influence in Syria goes back to the Soviet era and survived the collapse of the USSR and the end of communism. It appears that now Russian influence in Syria has survived the fall of ...

Leaked meeting minutes show Russia’s deputy defense minister leaning on Syria to pay a $37-million bill for keeping oil ...