Following the quick downfall of Syria’s Assad regime, Moscow, which had a fairly large military presence in Syria, has been reevaluating the strategy in the Middle East. According to a Syrian security ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Russia's operations across Africa are now in jeopardy, compromised by the abrupt collapse of former Syrian President ...

Syrian rebels stand on a picture of President Bashar al-Assad in the northern city of Aleppo on August 20, 2012. Fighting raged in Aleppo as rebels doggedly resisted a regime onslaught launched in the ...

As the pressure grows on President Obama to take action in Syria, it’s worth going back to re-read the March 2011 speech he gave explaining his intervention in Libya. In it, Obama made clear that that ...

Syria is conducting repression of its own people without interference, and, in Libya, Moammar Gadhafi is hanging on longer than expected. Is NATO prepared to protect civilians for humanitarian reasons ...

The Russian Navy is not out of the Mediterranean Sea. Momentous, once-in-a-generation geopolitical changes are underway in the Middle East. Since November of last year, with the sweeping away of the ...

With minorities excluded from elections, sectarian violence and change slow to come, a UN envoy has warned of a "Libyan scenario" for Syria. Could the country find itself divided among regional ...

A Libyan officer said the stepped-up flights from Russia and Syria delivered military gear. By Nataliya Vasilyeva With the fate of its military bases in Syria uncertain, Russia has been sending cargo ...

Syria is conducting bloody repression of its own people without interference. Some 8500 Syrians have fled across the border into Turkey and thousands more may be making their way on trucks, tractors ...