Russia's increased military support for Bashar al-Assad, which in recent weeks has expanded to a campaign of airstrikes, has not significantly improved the dictator's strategic outlook in the Syrian civil war, the U.S. intelligence community believes.
A high-ranking Cuban general, who also serves as Havana's defense minister, recently visited Syria to help support Bashar al-Assad in the country's civil war, in which the dictator's forces are fighting both rebel groups and the ISIS terror organization.
The U.S. and Russian government are reportedly in the talks of possibly signing an agreement for some air safety procedures in light of the current Syria conflict, wherein the aircrafts of the two countries flew too close with each other last Saturday.
Wealthy Middle Eastern nations -- and not the United States -- should protect the thousands of refugees who are fleeing the civil war in Syria, many of whom could be ISIS sympathizers, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump claimed on Sunday.
Russian security forces said on Monday that militants trained by the ISIS terror group had planned to strike Moscow's public transport system, but police forces successfully prevented the plot.
Militants from the Islamic terror group ISIS are encroaching on Aleppo, Syria's largest city, and have already taken control of large parts of homonymous province surrounding the highly symbolic locale.
The Obama administration announced that it will no longer seek to scout and train moderate Syrian rebels to fight against the Islamic State. Instead, the Pentagon will focus its resources on equipping and enabling existing rebel groups that have already been vetted by the U.S. to defeat the terrorist group.
Days after Russia commenced its attack on ISIS targets in Syria, a number of their cruise missiles, launched from a Russian ship, have crashed in Iran.
ISIS, also known as the Islamic State, destroyed another ancient landmark in the city of Palmyra, Syria, the latest monument to fall prey to the group's destruction.
Russian forces intervened in Syria's civil war for the first time on Wednesday as Moscow's fighter jets struck targets near the city of Homs, U.S. government sources said.
Obama criticized Russian action in Syria at a speech before the United Nations this Monday morning. President Barack Obama and Russian president Vladimir Putin were scheduled to speak before the United Nations Monday, setting out plans to address a four-year Syrian civil war that has left the country devastated.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad can continue to count on military support from Moscow, as Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted the aid was needed "to counter terrorist aggression."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become a heroine of human rights by insisting that Germany, as well as the whole of the 28-nation European Union, has a duty to shelter people fleeing civil wars.
Responding to the current migrant crisis wherein thousands Syrians are fleeing from their war torn country for safety, several Latin American nations have decided to welcome a welcome to the desperate refugees.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro promised on Monday that his country would offer asylum to up to 20,000 refugees fleeing from the civil war in Syria.
