Assad's exile in Russia is a life of secluded luxury and political irrelevance, where he is wealthy and secure but silenced ...

Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household ...

Israeli intelligence has warned Iran is planning to organise a hit against Syria's interim president, as further reports ...

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.

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

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

The plan, called "Plan B" by the British report, would include 86-year-old Khamenei and 20 close people, including family and ...

The contingency plan is said to have been modeled on the 2024 escape of his ally, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, who fled ...

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 ...