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Russia’s new Middle East strategy

Russia has not abandoned the game in the Middle East, and many countries in the region still have reasons to expand ties with Moscow.
In late 2015, the Kremlin achieved a key victory when it launched a military intervention in Syria to rescue the fast-sinking regime of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and enshrine its role as a ...
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said that Washington and Moscow on Thursday agreed to reestablish high level ...
Experts say the absence reflects the country's shrinking and increasingly concentrated arms-export industry.
"I want to congratulate you on the fact that the process of restoring the territorial integrity of Syria is gaining momentum, ...
By Dmitry Antonov and Suleiman Al-Khalidi MOSCOW, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Syrian ...
Despite a long list of regional setbacks, Russia still maintains a sizable influence from Libya to Iran. The official Kremlin website on the recent Russian-Arab Summit is a remarkable artifact. The ...
Russia's President Putin also tells the UAE's President Mohammed bin Zayed that Moscow is closely monitoring the situation in ...
Russia withdrew from one of its key military bases in Syria this week ...
(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday, on the eve of talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, that momentum in the Middle East peace process would help end his country's ...
Moscow’s exclusion from a major U.S.-brokered Gaza cease-fire summit underscores its declining regional clout. The fall of Assad, Iran’s military setbacks, and the war in Ukraine have strained ...