For five decades, Syrians were reminded of their despotic rulers every time they reached into their wallets. The faces ...

Vladimir Putin and his friends in the Kremlin will be watching events unfolding in Iran very carefully. First, because it ...

Among those living well in Moscow are Syria’s deposed dictator Assad and a former Kyrgyz strongman, Askar Akayev.

The Russian president has been unable to protect his allies in Venezuela and Iran from an unexpectedly belligerent U.S.

This isn’t the first time Russia chose to sit on the sidelines as one of its principal foreign partners got into trouble.

In the latest blow for the Iranian economy, all the UN sanctions lifted under the now dead 2015 nuclear deal were reimposed ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin faces serious challenges both on the frontline in Ukraine and on the international stage.

First Syria, then Iran, and now Venezuela. Slowly, but surely, Vladimir Putin’s hopes of creating an alternative network of ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has prepared a “Plan B” to flee Tehran with close aides and family if unrest ...

Widespread demonstrations in Iran may be the most destabilizing protests to date, further diminishing a government struggling ...

For the Russian leader, courting President Trump to secure a favorable resolution in Ukraine, and possibly more, is far more ...

The US raid on Venezuela has exposed the limits of ties between Moscow and Caracas – while pointing the way for potential ...