The base at Hmeymim has been at the heart of Moscow's military effort in support of Assad since 2015

Russia denounced a US warning to the Syrian leadership that it will pay a heavy price for any chemical weapons attack, and dismissed White House assertions that a strike...

The White House said on Monday it appears the Syrian government is preparing for another chemical weapons attack and it warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad he and his military...

The image of the United States has deteriorated sharply across the globe under President Donald Trump and an overwhelming majority of people in other countries have no confidence in...

The likelihood that Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi has been killed is close to 100 per cent, Interfax news agency quoted Viktor Ozerov, the head of the defence committee...

How will Vladimir Putin respond to the growing challenges against him? The Russian president, who turns 65 in October, might presently look unassailable – but maintaining that grip will...

Australia said on Thursday it would resume air strikes into Syria, ending a two-day suspension implemented after the downing of a Syrian military aircraft triggered a Russian threat against...

A NATO F-16 fighter jet tried to approach the plane of the Russian Defence Minister, Sergey Shoygu, over neutral waters in the Baltic Sea, Russian news agency Interfax reported....

Russia is “seriously concerned” by the United States’ actions in Syria, Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said yesterday. “The situation linked to the coalition’s actions is seriously concerning, of course,”...

Legislation to impose new sanctions on Russia and Iran that passed the US Senate nearly unanimously last week has run into a procedural problem that could prevent a quick...

Government air and artillery bombardments hit rebel-held areas of the Syrian city of Deraa, on the border with Jordan, on Tuesday after a two-day ceasefire expired, witnesses, rebels and...

Western-backed Syrian rebels holding a strategic swathe of the desert southeast stretching to the Iraqi border said they came under major attack on Tuesday from government forces and allied...

The US military said it had shot down an armed, Iranian-made drone that had been bearing down on its forces near a garrison in Syria’s southeast on Tuesday, in...

The final agreement that will bring nuclear energy to Sudan by the end of this year was signed in the Russian capital, Moscow, yesterday between Sudan’s electricity ministry and...

The Russian Defence Ministry warned yesterday that it would treat any plane flown by US forces or their allies west of the Euphrates river as “targets”. The threat came...

Australia said today it had suspended airstrikes into Syria following the US downing of a Syrian military jet and Russia’s subsequent threat against US-led coalition aircrafts. Yesterday Russia said...