MOSCOW (AP) — Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa visited Moscow on Wednesday for the second time in less than four months, and Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized his readiness to help ...

Late last month, Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa visited Moscow, for the second time since assuming office. “I saw a lot of snow on the way and recalled a story,” he said to President Putin in the ...

But the U.S. has intervened in Syrian leadership succession in the past. In fact, as Syrian Independence Day approaches on ...

Yet when the United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran in late February—the second in just eight months, following last summer’s 12-day war—Russia mostly stood idly by. Putin called the ...

But the turmoil is offering another leader the chance to emerge strengthened from the conflict raging on Europe’s doorstep — ...

Assessing Russia's Actions in Ukraine and Syria, 2014–2022: Implications for the Changing Character of War A newly released podcast episode is revisiting a 2024 book that examines how Russia blended ...

Revisit FRONTLINE’s documentaries on the Syrian war's devastating human toll, the journeys of refugees, the foreign ...

NPR's A Martinez speaks with historian Sergey Radchenko about how Russia benefits from the U.S. being at war with Iran.