Secretary of State John Kerry insisted on Tuesday that the U.S.-Russian agreement for  Syria  to hand over its chemical weapons must be backed by a U.N. resolution with the teeth to force compliance from President Bashar al-Assad. "That will happen only with the  United...

  In the Syrian conflict, the Russian government has firmly sided with the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Russian author and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek offers a different view. There is no consensus toward the Syrian crisis in Russia. It varies from...

Syrian opposition chief Ahmad Jarba urged the Security Council Tuesday to adopt a resolution under Chapter VII of the UN charter allowing use of force to cripple Syria's "war machine." In a speech on Arab televisions, Jarba said "ending the killing of Syrian people is only possible by...

  Beheaded in front of children, Assad's thugs are dragged to their doom and butchered like animals in some of the most brutal scenes to emerge from Syria's civil war The sword rests briefly on his neck as a blindfolded man kneels under a clear blue sky. Moments later, the...