The Ursa Major, a 466ft vessel owned by the Russian defence ministry, has sunk in the Mediterranean after an 'explosion' on board - it is thought to have been on a secret mission to Syria ...

This happened while you were sleeping. Here’s what world agencies reported overnight from Monday to Tuesday. Hundreds of ...

Assad’s wife have addressed divorce rumours amid calls for her UK passport to be scrapped. It comes as the deposed Syrian ...

Thousands and thousands of Syrians of all ages dancing and embracing, weeping and singing, waving the country's new flag and celebrating the end of ...

According to Ukrainian intelligence, the ship was dispatched to evacuate troops from Syria and is currently adrift near Portugal.

It looks like a tribute to the 45th and 47th president's persistence under pressure — a quality always desirable in a ...

Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a stronger military presence in the continent following the ...

MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for meeting with him in Russian. "Thank you very much for this evening," he said in Russian, as ...

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has led to the freeing of tens of thousands of prisoners from the country’s brutal and ...

How did Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad get away with murdering hundreds of thousands and dumping them in mass graves? Easy: ...

During a "Direct Line" Q&A session combined with his annual press conference on Thursday, Putin clarified that he had not yet met with Assad after his arrival in Moscow but plans to speak with him ...

Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa.