Syrian President Bashar al Assad said the continued presence of Russia’s major naval and air bases in his country help counter the influence of Western powers in the region as the battle to crush insurgents was winding down. In an interview with Russia’s Ministry of Defence TV channel...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has documented at least 162 cases of arbitrary arrests and detention in September, including two children and six women, noting that it has been the highest record of arrests since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, and that the Syrian regime doesn’t...

 Azerbaijan said on Sunday that Armenian forces had fired rockets at its second city of Ganja, killing one civilian and wounding four, and threatened to retaliate by destroying military targets inside Armenia. The developments marked a sharp escalation of the war in the South Caucasus...

India passed a grim milestone in its fight against the coronavirus Saturday, with health authorities saying the country has recorded more than 100,000 virus-related deaths since the pandemic began. The announcement from the Health Ministry means that nearly 10 percent of the more than 1...