Alliance officials believe Moscow's sea service is strained, having to focus on the Baltic and High North regions instead.

Ukraine spotlighted Russia’s naval weaknesses—aging surface combatants, a crippled carrier, constrained access—but also its ...

Russia's navy appears to be stretched thin from setbacks in the Black Sea and Syria, a Dutch commander said. Ukrainian attacks on the Black Sea Fleet and the loss of a key Syrian port have dealt major ...

Syrian President Bashar al Assad said the continued presence of Russia's major naval and air bases in his country help counter the influence of Western powers in the region as the battle to crush ...

The majority of Russia’s Mediterranean Sea Task Force departed the Mediterranean earlier this year. Last month, the Russian Navy carried out its “July Storm” exercises, which involved nearly all of ...

Russia is increasingly violating neighbors' airspace and menacing NATO throughout Eastern Europe and along the Baltic, but ...

When armed factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham overthrew Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad last December, many observers believed that Russia’s days in Syria were numbered. For decades, ...

President Vladimir Putin on Monday approved the creation of a Russian naval facility in Sudan capable of mooring nuclear-powered surface vessels, clearing the way for Moscow's first substantial ...

Syria holds strategic importance for Moscow and Tehran, which have both bolstered Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime at ...

Journalists tracked the vessel from the air using a helicopter. It was spotted between the islands of Langeland and Lolland, near the Danish coast, and went unnoticed for some time because its ...