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Tehran’s Proxies Are on the Back Foot. An Iran-Russia Defense Pact Could Revive Them.
Under the proposed “comprehensive strategic partnership” between Moscow and Tehran, we are likely to see the Iran-Russia ...
Bashar Al-Assad Poisoned In Russia? Reports Of Ousted Syrian President's Strained Relationship With Putin Surfaced
Recent media reports suggest that former Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad was the target of a suspected poisoning attempt on ...
Irish Star on MSN14d
Russia denies Bashar al-Assad rumors that 'do not correspond to reality'
Russian officials have been forced to issue a statement after reports emerged suggesting the wife of ousted Syrian dictator ...
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Where is Assad? Russia solves the mystery of the Syrian dictator’s escape
Assad and his family arrived in Moscow after being granted asylum in Russia for what state media explained as “humanitarian reasons,” an official source in Russia told CNN on Sunday night.
Russia breaks silence to defend Putin's pal Assad amid swirling divorce rumours
The Kremlin has been forced to issue an embarrassing denial of allegations the former Syrian dictator's wife was leaving him.
How Assad’s fall has damaged Russia’s ambitions in Africa
Samuel Ramani, an associate fellow at the RUSI think tank and the author of the book Russia in Africa, described the collapse ...
New York Post29d
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and family in Moscow after Russia granted them asylum: reports
Ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad has fled to Russia after Islamist rebels rolled into the capital Damascus and ended his despotic family’s 50-year reign of ...
Russia’s fight for Syria isn’t over
The Khmeimim airbase in Latakia has been a lifeline for Russia’s expanding influence in Africa, from Libya to several ...
New York Sun6d
Ukraine Courts Syria With an Eye Toward Expelling Russia From Kremlin’s Only Mediterranean Redoubts
As Russia clings to its only bases in the Mediterranean — they’re on the coast of Syria — Ukraine is moving aggressively to ...
The Express Tribune1d
Russia's last submarine departs Tartus
Russia's last submarine in the Mediterranean, the Improved Kilo Class Noborossiysk (B-61), has left its base in Tartus, Syria ...