What the fall of Assad says about Putin’s ambitions for Russia’s great-power status
Russia’s position in the Middle East now is in peril. Moscow has lost a key ally in Assad. Its other main allies, Iran and Hezbollah, are significantly weakened. Israel and Turkey, with whom the Kremlin has not had easy relations over the past few years, have been strengthened.
The Kremlin’s failure to prevent Bashar Assad’s swift downfall in Syria has exposed the limits of Russia’s power and dented ...
Vladimir Putin has been dealt a significant geopolitical blow with the downfall of Bashar al-Assad, whose regime in Syria the ...
Assad, after the swift collapse of the Syrian leader's regime, Russia’s deputy foreign minister told NBC News.
Syrians are now roaming through Assad’s abandoned presidential palace in Damascus, much as Ukrainians were able to visit the ...
The president-elect claimed Russia is in a "weakened state" due to the Ukraine conflict and urged Putin to negotiate.
There, Russian president Vladimir Putin has made a series of strategic miscalculations that will undermine Russia’s influence ...
It will have been a salutary experience for Vladimir Putin to stand by impotently as his erstwhile Syrian ally Bashar ...
CNN’s Fred Pleitgen reports from Moscow as the whereabouts of deposed former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad remains a ...
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