Mouldy half-finished food on bunk beds, discarded military uniforms and abandoned weapons - these are the remnants of an ...

Putin is desperate to maintain control over the military base in Latakia, a key logistics point for its Africa operations.

Russia will likely keep a reduced military presence in Syria, achieving a key objective for President Vladimir Putin after ...

Syria is fractured by competing armies but who holds power and where may be shifting as the US eyes an exit.

Landmarks including the ancient city of Palmyra and the medieval Crusader castle of Crac des Chevaliers remain scarred by ...

‘Drones attacked the Russian airbase Hmeimim, located in the north-west of Syria. Air defence systems are working,’ the ...

For now, Russia, which had numerous bases and outposts across Syria, has drawn its military personnel and assets back from all but the two installations in Tartus and Latakia. They are of deep ...

Syria says it's open to allowing Russia to keep hold of two key military bases, months after rebel groups ousted Kremlin ally ...

It deployed military advisers, mobilised foreign militias, and invested heavily in Syria's war. Its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) built deep networks of underground bases ...

Syria is open to allowing Russia to keep hold of its two military bases in the country, two months after rebel groups ousted Kremlin ally Bashar Assad and set in motion a Russian troop and ...