Behrouz Esbati said he partially blamed Russia for the fall of Assad's government, in a rare break from Iran's official line ...

Russia backed Assad and intervened directly in support ... as part of the renewed and urgent search for the American journalist. Asked by CNN if Carstens would travel on to Damascus, Miller ...

Putin has said he will ask the deposed president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, about the U.S. journalist Austin Tice, who went missing in the country 12 years ago. “I promise to ask this question,” he ...

Debra Tice, the mother of the U.S. journalist, said Wednesday that ... position because of the Ukraine war and Russia’s loss of Assad in Syria. “I believe that Russia has become much stronger ...

Vladimir Putin promised to question ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on ... American journalist Austin Tice — just one day after Tice’s mother sent a letter to the Russian president ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday rejected the notion that the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad represented a defeat for Russia. Putin said during his annual news conference that ...

Russia was Assad's key backer and had swept to his aid ... "I assure you it is not," he said, responding to a question from an American journalist. "We came to Syria 10 years ago so that a ...