Syria’s Deputy Commander in Chief of the Army and Armed Forces, Deputy Premier and Defense Minister, First Lt.- General, Mustafa Tlass, received on Saturday Lebanese Defense Minister Khalil ...

(credit: SHUTTERSTOCK/Mustafa ... in Syria, a naval base in Tartous and an air base near the port city of Latakia, the Kremlin said on Monday. In an interview in January, Syria's defense minister ...

It was in fact another name for Hezbollah, a pro-Iranian Lebanese Shiite militia protected by Syria ... The defense ministry was led by a Sunni, the immovable Mustafa Tlass, al-Assad's classmate ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

In Syria, the West has been keen not to repeat the mistakes ... One of the architects of this, who signed many of those warrants, was Mustafa Tlass, the then-Defence Minister, who died in France on 27 ...

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

The defense minister, dressed in a blue suit without a tie, declined to directly confirm whether Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, requested Assad’s extradition when he met with ...

According to Syria's state news agency SANA, the Turkish delegation met with Syrian Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra and Chief of General Staff Ali Nasaan in Damascus. Following the press briefing, ...

Syrian Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra told The Washington Post that Syria is open to letting Russia keep its air and naval bases along the Mediterranean coast as long as any agreement with the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria is open to letting Russia keep its air and naval bases along the Mediterranean coast as long as any agreement with the Kremlin serves the country’s interests, Syrian ...

Syria's defence minister said on Wednesday that Damascus was open to talks with a Kurdish-led group on its dismantling, but did not rule out the use of force should negotiations fail. "The door to ...