Thomas Grove

Eric Adams cleared a path for the opening of the troubled Manhattan skyscraper after the Fire Department flagged defects. “You are a true friend of Turkey,” the consul general replied.

Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns. Topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters.

Moscow's support for the Assad regime has helped it project power throughout the region.

Russia’s foreign ministry said Sunday that the country’s military installations in Syria, which include a naval hub at the Mediterranean port of Tartus and the Khmeimim Air Base, were in a state of heightened combat readiness.

Russia’s foreign ministry said Sunday that Moscow is in contact with all Syrian rebel groups after Bashar al-Assad fled Damascus. Assad left the country after talks with Syrian opposition forces, the statement said, adding that Russia didn’t participate in the talks.

Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, where Russia has granted them political asylum, a source in the Kremlin told the state news agency TASS. Assad, who was in Damascus on Saturday, fled the country early Sunday local time, according to Syrian security officials and Arab officials, but his whereabouts had been unknown.

The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since Stalin. era.

With Moscow’s money, attention and ammunition focused on its conflict with Ukraine, the Kremlin’s global power projects are in a state of slow decay.

With Moscow's money, attention and ammunition focused on its conflict with Ukraine, the Kremlin's global power projects are in a state of slow decay.

The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era