But Russia quickly moved to maintain its ties with Damascus in the weeks after Assad fled to Moscow, with an eye on keeping its two key bases in the country's coastal region. A senior Russian ...

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa demanded that President Vladimir Putin extradite a person in Russian ex-head of Syria Bashar al-Assad Damascus for trial, said sources of the television company Al ...

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Moscow, SANA– Russia strongly condemns Israel’s attacks on Damascus, calling them a flagrant violation of the international law with serious implications for the stability of the region.

Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, where Russia has granted them political asylum, a source in the Kremlin told the state news agency TASS. Assad was in Damascus on Saturday and fled ...

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 ...

As such, the country's leaders are willing "to make peace, even with their former enemies," one Damascus-based diplomat told Reuters. "Moscow still has something to offer for Syria," and is too ...

Russian state media said Assad had arrived in Moscow and was being given asylum ... nation," HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani said at Damascus' ancient Umayyad Mosque. Assad's "supposedly ...

Reports suggest that negotiations over Assad’s fate are closely tied to the broader normalization of relations between ...