The Russian ambassador in Damascus says trade between the two countries tripled in 2021, according to Enab Baladi Trade between Russia and the Syrian regime’s government tripled in 2021, compared to the same period of 2020. “According to current data, bilateral trade with Damascus in the first 11 months of …

The candidate for commander-in-chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East has warned senators of serious repercussions for the Middle East, particularly Syria, if Russia launches a military operation against Ukraine. At a Senate Defense Committee hearing on his candidacy, Gen. Michael Eric Corella said that the United States faces …

Syrian and Turkish officials met with Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu to discuss the situation of refugees in Turkey, according to al-Souria Net. In a closed-door meeting on Tuesday, Syrian and Turkish officials met with Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu and Director of General Immigration Savas Unlu to discuss Syrian-related …

The Interior Board in the Jazira region of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) condemned, Thursday, the Turkish forces’ frequent attacks on its areas, at the same time holding Washington and Moscow responsible for those attacks. A Turkish drone bombed a car in the village of Bahira …

Russia and Ukraine said they had failed to reach any breakthrough in a day of talks with French and German officials aimed at ending an eight-year separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. The lack of progress marked a setback for efforts to defuse the wider Ukraine crisis in which Russia has …

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine, which the West suspects is a prelude to an invasion, has triggered Europe’s most serious security crisis in decades, as Moscow began holding joint military exercises in Belarus involving more than 30,000 troops. As Johnson spoke in …

Russia opened 10 days of massive military drills in Belarus on Thursday and docked six of its ships at a strategic Black Sea port, drawing a sharp rebuke from Ukrainian officials who characterized Moscow’s actions as further escalating tensions in the region. The Russian maneuvers in Belarus involved thousands of …

The familiar biblical Tower of Babel narratives begin after Noah’s Deluge, humans attempted to rebuild the civilization, where they decided to construct the tower reaching to the heavens, and this displeased God. “The Lord said, ‘if as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then …

The politics of Russia and of Ukraine have been intimately intermingled ever since the formal divorce of the two countries from the Soviet Union in 1991. As with many collapses of larger states into smaller ones, the old political habits do not just disappear overnight and power relations between the …

If there was one thing that predictably united the usually squabbling Roman elite, it was the emergence of a perceived threat to Rome’s Mediterranean and near-continental hegemony. To some degree, however difficult to calculate, it is impossible to deny that the dissolution of the Soviet Union has been responsible for …