ISTANBUL (AA) – Bashar al-Assad regime airlifted approximately $250 million in cash to Moscow between 2018 and 2019, amid escalating Western sanctions and deepening financial dependence on Russia for military and economic support, according to records uncovered by the Financial Times. Documents obtained by the British daily reveal that S...
KHMEIMIM, Syria (AA) – Russian forces stationed at Khmeimim Air Base in Syria’s Latakia province continue to carry out activities despite the fall of the Bashar Assad regime. With the Baath regime’s collapse, Russia continued to transfer its troops from Damascus, Homs and other cities across Syria to the base. Russian military vehicles w...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Kremlin has said that US President-elect Donald Trump did not send Russian President Vladimir Putin an invitation to attend his inauguration in January. Speaking to journalists in the Russian capital Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said they have not received an invitation extended by Trump. Peskov’s remarks c...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Kremlin on Monday confirmed that deposed head of the Syrian regime Bashar al-Assad and his family were given asylum by Russia. “Of course, such decisions cannot be made without the head of state. It is his (Russian President Vladimir Putin) decision,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow. Noting th...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US strongly supports a peaceful transition of power to an “accountable” government in Syria through an inclusive Syrian-led process, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday. “During this transitional period, the Syrian people have every right to demand the preservation of state institutions, ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Bashar al-Assad decided to step down and leave Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Expressing concern over the situation in Syria, the ministry claimed Assad’s departure emerged as an outcome of negotiations held between his regime and forces taking part in the armed conflict, also cla...
ANKARA (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that Bashar al-Assad fled Syria because Russia was no longer interested in protecting him. Assad fled Syria to an unknown location after anti-regime groups took control of the capital Damascus early Sunday. It came almost a week after anti-regime groups seized control of Aleppo, a ma...
Russia’s largest oil company Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin has said that the global energy sector is embroiled in a hybrid war and gold could soon rival the dollar as the world’s primary currency Delivering a speech in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, he said the main competitor of the U.S. currency will be gold, […]
NEW YORK (AA) – The US national security advisor has said the Syrian opposition’s advances in and around Aleppo are linked to a new situation “in which the Syrian government’s main backers, Iran, Russia, and Hezbollah, were all distracted and weakened by conflicts and events elsewhere.” The opposition “took ...
ANKARA (AA) – President Joe Biden described Russia’s overnight missile and drone assault on Ukraine as “outrageous,” highlighting the attack as a stark reminder of the importance of supporting Ukraine, the White House said on Thursday. “Overnight, Russia carried out a horrific aerial attack against Ukraine,” said the presidential m...
