A U.S. operation in Syria last month mistakenly killed a man who had been working undercover against the Islamic State group, according to his family, a war monitor and officials.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin held a rare meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ahead of a summit aimed at shaping a political settlement to end the six-year civil war in the country.

T he meandering roads through Latakia, Syria’s Alawite heartland, feel deceptively calm. In March they were the scene of ...

Russia in January accuses Britain of carrying out a spying operation which involved using a receiver hidden in a fake rock to gather secret information from agents. 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko, a ...

A newly revealed trove of photos depicts 10,000 people who had died in Bashar al-Assad’s brutal prison system during his last ...

Photographs of more than 10,000 regime victims capture a campaign of torture and mass murder in haunting, meticulous detail.

A trove of leaked records provides new evidence of thousands of Assad regime killings — and a chance for closure for families ...

Russia is expected to imminently open its first African naval base in Sudan, whose government has sought foreign partners to aid in its ongoing civil war.

Sudan’s military government approved Russia’s first African naval base near Port Sudan in February. The port is a link ...

The trip comes days before the anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and as Lebanon is navigating the cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel.