A new phase of rapprochement has begun between the United States and Russia, marked by a phone call that lasted over an hour and a half between U.S. President ...

The European Union has stepped up efforts to increase its influence in Central Asia, with one of the objectives being to drive Russia and China out of the region. However, the EU’s attempts to ...

An axis uniting China, Russia, Iran and North Korea—dubbed CRINK by some Western officials—has emerged from the Ukraine war, ...

Since the early 2000s, Turkey has relied on a foreign policy approach that emphasised cooperation instead of competition.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Russian President Vladimir Putin that cooperation between their two countries is ...

Rana Al-Ahmad opens her fridge after breaking fast at sundown with her family during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan ...

Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad on the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the dictator who ordered Fayyad's imprisonment ...

The Kremlin has denied reports that claim Asma al-Assad is seeking a return to London following her husband's exile in Moscow. Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a ...

The fall of Assad, whom Moscow had backed for years in Syria's civil war, has dealt a heavy blow to its interests in the Middle East. Russia is trying to build relations with the new Syrian leadership ...

Moscow's private criticism of Syria's Islamist ... forces blamed on ex-army figures loyal to ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, who is Alawite. That attack unleashed widespread killings of Alawites ...

He repeated pleas for Washington to lift sanctions imposed in the Assad era. He also held out the prospect of restoring relations with Moscow, Dr Assad’s backer throughout the war, which is ...