Eight years ago, Syria’s civil war shifted in President Bashar Al-Assad’s favor after a Russian blitzkrieg on Aleppo helped him regain control over the country’s second biggest city.

A little over a week after taking power, the rebel alliance that led the overthrow of the Assad regime has begun to receive diplomats in the Syrian capital, Damascus. By Vivian Yee Reporting from ...

"To retreat from Syria, the Russians have deployed a caravan ... and 'Vyazma' Kaliningradneft-class oiler – are in a holding pattern in the roadstead about eight kilometres west of the port ...