With its 2015 intervention in Syria’s civil war, Russia re-entered the fray in the Middle East for the first time since the end of the Cold War—and in a spectacular fashion. ..…

American intervention in Russia (1918-1920) . American troops in Vladivostok in August 1918. . ... Like other Allied nations, the U.S. sent troops to Civil War-ravaged Russia in support of the White anti-Bolshevik forces. ..…

America's abrupt reversal pushed Kurds to strike deal with Russia-backed of Syrian President Bashar Assad, inviting its forces to return to regions of Syria it had abandoned at the height of the civil war.. On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia is..…

-led peace efforts throughout the region and faulted Russia for ignoring ISIS while providing military support to Syrian Bashar Assad in Syrian civil war... ..…

Syria: Arming Al Qaeda while empowering Russia to intervene . In Syria Obama and Brennan actively promulgated the civil war by arming Al Qaeda and militant factions to fight Assad. ... There has been an ongoing civil war ever since. . . Crimea was part of..…

Since the Syrian civil war erupted nearly seven years ago, perhaps the most dramatic regional diplomatic development has been the steady reemergence of Russia as a major player in the . . . ... Despite differing political agendas in Syria’s ongoing civil war,..…

And he had taken advantage of the revolution and subsequent civil war in Russia to grab a vast piece of territory of the former czarist empire during the Russian-Polish War of 1919-1921. ..…

And he had taken advantage of the revolution and subsequent civil war in Russia to grab a vast piece of territory of the former czarist empire during the Russian-Polish War of 1919-1921. ..…

The democratic impulse that flourished in the Revolution and was defeated in the Civil War emerged again in Russia after 1991 but has once againbeen foiled. ..…

This unprecedented intervention happened during the Civil War in Russia (1917-1921), while the Soviet state was still in its infancy. ..…

He went into exile in May 1918 as civil war flared in Russia. . In contrast, Lenin understood the necessity of ending the war at any price. ..…

During the Civil War [in Russia] the Bolsheviks arrived in the town that was closest to the monastery. ..…

Russia threatened with civil war . . The mood in Russia is pre-revolutionary, writes historian Andrei Subov in Obosrevatel: . ..…

Since the Yugoslav crisis broke out, as a member of the so-called Balkans Contact Group, Moscow had been a constructive partner in joint international efforts to deescalate this bloody civil war. . However, Boris Yeltsin’s Russia had difficulty in agreeing to the idea of military..…

Since then, the conflict has taken on elements of both a civil war and an interstate conflict, with Russia arming separatist combatants and sponsoring the breakaway regions. ..…

“On 6th anniversary of Syrian civil war, Assad & Russia cont. to commit genocide — when will the world wake up to the slaughter in Syria?” ..…

That did not deter McCain from endless pious preening, such as his early 2017 tweet: “On 6th anniversary of Syrian civil war, Assad & Russia cont. to commit genocide — when will the world wake up to the slaughter in Syria?” ..…

Also troubling is Russia’s interest in Libya, a country caught up in a civil war. While Libyan energy issues are of interest to Moscow, there are concerns Russia might also be interested in military bases in Libya, which is strategically positioned in North Africa..…

That did not deter McCain from endless pious preening, such as his early 2017 tweet: “On 6th anniversary of Syrian civil war, Assad & Russia cont. to commit genocide — when will the world wake up to the slaughter in Syria?” ..…

Russia was doomed to isolation. . This isolation--along with Russia's economic backwardness and the scarcity and desperation caused by a civil war fomented by the remnants of tsarism, with the active support of imperialist countries, including the U.S. ... It will be enough..…

On the 5th year of war with #Russia it's unfortunate we have 2 remind @thetimes, a leading source, that there is no civil war in #Ukraine but direct RU aggrssn resulted in annexation of Crimea&war in Donbas where UA soldiers fight 40K strong RU army. ... The paper changed..…

Though beautifully written and full of piercing insights, Year One’s recounting of the human toll of the post-October civil war that ravaged Russia is sobering.  . ... Sabotage, foreign intervention, civil war, and blockade unfolded against this backdrop. ..…

It was blockaded early on, there was physical destruction wrought by the civil war and a continued threat of mines in the Baltic. ... He also insists on the scale of the economic and social distortion created by the civil war. ..…

Ravished by years of external and civil war, Russia and its adjacent territories were in ruins. . Yet contrary to their own expectation, the Bolsheviks survived the civil war and defeated their enemies. ..…

While Russia was being torn apart by Civil War, Poles took the opportunity to restore its past - Polish Golden Age, Ukraine and Lithuania with borders extending from Baltic to Black Sea.   . ..…

The situation is therefore primed by Washington for escalation into a civil war. . Russia has condemned the interference by the US in Venezuela’s internal affairs, saying that President Maduro is the legitimate head of state. ..…

Wedged between competing superpowers, ordinary people all too often paid a heavy price, from the Congo crisis (1960 to 1965), to the first civil war in Chad (1965 to 1979) and the Mozambican civil war (1977 to 1992). . Russia took many observers by surprise last..…

The Horror Of Russia’s Civil War . . January 09, 2019 11:47 GMT . . . . ... The number of people estimated killed during Russia's civil war runs into the millions. . . . 13 'American food for Russians' being loaded onto a boat in Hamburg. ..…

In elitist circles in London, Paris, and elsewhere, they were convinced of the ineluctability of the failure of the Bolsheviks’ bold experiment but, just to be sure, it was decided to send troops to Russia to support the “white” counterrevolutionaries against the Bolshevik “reds” in a conflict that..…

In elitist circles in London, Paris, and elsewhere, they were convinced of the ineluctability of the failure of the Bolsheviks’ bold experiment but, just to be sure, it was decided to send troops to Russia to support the “white” counterrevolutionaries against the Bolshevik “reds” in a conflict that..…

This not only interdicts foreign intervention in Syria’s civil war; it also places the entire Caucasus region beyond the easy reach of NATO and Western air or military power. ... Meanwhile in Yemen’s case, Moscow has dramatically upgraded its political profile in that country’s..…

It is little emphasised that there were some revolutions, notably in Germany and Hungary, but none succeeded, and World War I continued as a civil war in Russia, with France and Britain sending troops to help the Whites, who wanted to restore the Tsarist regime. . ..…

In Russia, a bloody civil war ultimately saw the Bolsheviks triumph. In Turkey, violence was used as a way to forcefully undo the provisions of a peace treaty. . ..…

Amidst the evolving civil war, Russia’s economic interests in Libya have remained stable. ..…

plan surprise attack against Soviet Union.. ..…

Chechnya, Russia vs. Islamic forces in Tajikistan's civil war, and Christian-majority Armenia vs. ... In the first two examples, Iran's siding with Russia at the expense of Muslims and Islamists is explained by the nuclear assistance and other aid that Russia has been..…

The regime of Bashar Assad, Iran’s ally in Syria, continues to face serious threats after more than seven years of civil war. Russia has lent its support as well, but Iran’s position in Syria has been undercut by recent U.S., British and French air strikes in Syria and by..…

Instead of aiding Christians it was turned into a bill that would set up a never-ending commission to blame Russia and Iran for the civil war in Syria which was actually financed by Saudi Arabia and the U.S. . ..…

One would have thought that after Napoleon, Civil War and Hitler, Russia would regard any move from West with extreme suspicion and lo and behold, the Great Russian Flaw raised its head. ..…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed Russia defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, to Istanbul Sunday to discuss preparations for Syrian civil war “peace talks” also involving Iran and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. . ... Anadolu notes that Turkey will be part of..…

Russia . Since the early days of the Syrian Civil War, Russia made its support for Assad clear as a reliable veto on any UN resolutions condemning his government’s human rights abuses against its people. ..…

Following a nearly year-long hiatus that started after the Turkish military shot down a Russian plane in November 2015, Turkey and Russia repaired their deteriorating relationship. . Throughout the Syrian civil war, Russia and Turkey have been on opposite sides of the..…

To end their involvement in World War I, the Bolsheviks signed a peace treaty with Germany in which Russia ceded large chunks of land to Germany. In the turmoil that followed, a civil war ensued in Russia. . With Russia weakened, many states—such as Estonia, Finland,..…

war against Western civilization is taking place, and it's Russia, in East, that is defending cultural and religious traditions, not America or Europe.. ..…

Nobody is contesting that Syria has entered a civil war. Despite the efforts of Russia and China, the time for negotiating and defusing the crisis by a political solution seems to be over. ..…