The numerous militias in Syria have gone from ill-organized neighborhood watch groups to a coherent paramilitary organization. At age 70, Ahmad Saidi took up arms after the slaying of his son, a father of five who was killed when a remote-controlled bomb blew up his car. A neighbor...

  Russia is willing to participate in the transportation and destruction of Syrian chemical weapons, but only as part of an international coalition, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday. Shoigu's comments at the Valdai forum in Russia's Novgorod region --...

The UN inspectors investigating the chemical weapons attack on two suburbs in Damascus last month weren’t supposed to point the finger at the party responsible for the killings. But even so, the Sellstrom report  revealed key details of the attack that strongly suggest the government is...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could cling to power for years despite having lost overall control of his country, according to Israel's top commander on the frontier with  Syria . Major-General Yair Golan's remarks, published on Wednesday in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper,...