Russia’s decision two years ago to intervene militarily in Syria appears to have saved Bashar Assad’s regime but a peace settlement seems ever more elusive,...
“I asked her to forgive us and I even cried as I stroked her for the last time,” says 90-year-old Russian biologist Adilya Kotovskaya, recalling the day she...
Russia, Turkey and Iran pledged Tuesday in Kazakhstan to bring the Syrian regime and its opponents together for a “congress” to help nudge peace efforts...
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A fresh round of peace talks seeking to end Syria's war opened in the Kazakh capital Astana Monday, as part of a Moscow-led push supported by Iran and...
The leaders of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia launched an 826-km rail link connecting the three countries Monday, establishing a freight and passenger link...
A fresh round of peace talks seeking to end Syria’s war began in the Kazakh capital Astana Monday, as part of a Moscow-led push supported by Iran and...
The U.N. reached thousands of beleaguered Syrians with emergency food relief for the first time in over a month on Monday, amid warnings that conditions...
United Nations investigators on Thursday blamed a sarin gas massacre on Bashar Assad's regime, as the United States renewed its warning that he has no role in...
Russia conducted several ballistic missile tests on Thursday from "land, air and sea" as part of its strategic nuclear programme, the Defence ministry...
Fresh talks on the Syria conflict will be held in Astana at the end of the month, Kazakhstan said Thursday, as part of a Moscow-led push to end the six-year...
OPEC sent its strongest signal yet that output cuts will be extended until the end of 2018, saying negotiations are taking their lead from Vladimir Putin’s...
A light seen in the night sky over the United Arab Emirates likely was a discarded Russian rocket breaking up after re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
The Turkish army is expanding its deployment in northwest Syria with the goal of encircling a Kurdish enclave and reining in Russian strikes in the Idlib...
Syria demanded on Saturday that Turkish troops who had entered northwestern Syria leave immediately, saying their presence constituted a "flagrant aggression".
Turkey’s military has begun setting up observation posts in northwest Syria’s militant-controlled Idlib province, its General Staff said Friday, in a bid to...
Pakistani troops shot out the tyres of a vehicle carrying a kidnapped U.S.-Canadian couple and their children in a raid that led to the family's release, a...
An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three young children have been released after years held captive by a network with ties to the Taliban, U.S....
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday he hoped U.S. President Donald Trump would make a "balanced" decision on whether to remain engaged in the...
Six decades after Sputnik, a refined version of the rocket that put the first artificial satellite in orbit remains the mainstay of Russia’s space program – a...