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Russian President Vladimir Putin's intervention in Syria to prop up the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is following a playbook he first used during the Second Chechen War at the ...
For Vladimir Putin, Syria is not just about supporting President Bashar al-Assad. It’s about Russia’s place in the world. Ever since Russia began airstrikes in Syria a month ago, ...
Images shared on social media have illustrated the anger that Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad feel toward his ally Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader has been indispensable in ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the presence of U.S. troops in Syria illegal during a Monday meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Moscow, according to the Kremlin.. The ...
Since the Syrian crisis began, Putin has stood by Russia’s long-time ally, blocking any U.N. criticism of Assad’s regime, while upping arms shipments to the war-torn nation.
The lightning advance of rebels in Syria and their rapid capture of the cities of Aleppo and Hama are threatening one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proudest achievements, his 2015 ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the end of Syria’s civil war was in sight as he hosted Iran’s Hassan Rouhani and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Sochi Summit, a meeting that ...
Joshua Yaffa on the war in Syria, Russia’s grievances against the West, and Vladimir Putin’s actions in the months leading up to the U.S. election.
The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria represents a personal defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin and a potentially serious strategic setback for his military that undermines Moscow’s ...