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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 ...

Just a few years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed to have reasserted Moscow’s influence in the Middle East after decades in which it had waned. As Putin deepened ties with long-standing ...

MOSCOW, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday sent a big delegation to Syria, headed by its top energy official, in its most visible effort yet to build relations with the government that toppled ...

The failure of the Western strategy of Wandel durch Handel (German for “change through trade” with authoritarian powers) has led some political analysts to seize on engineering a second Sino-Soviet ...

The United States’ challenge is that there will be neither an unbreakable Sino-Russian alliance nor a Sino-Russian split that the United States could provoke. While Russia does chafe at its dependence ...