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...

  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...

Deadly conflict in Syria meant that as many as 400 schools had to close their doors, depriving children of education The deadly Syrian conflict is making the maintainance of a functioning educational process in the war-torn country even more difficult, as over a million children...

A group of professionals and former army officers launched Monday a petition urging Egypt's military chief, who ousted the country's first freely elected leader, to run for president, highlighting the yearning for a strongman to take charge after nearly three years of turmoil. The campaign...