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...

  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...

   Egypt threatened ore than 100 Palestinians and Syrians of extradition to Bashar al-Assad' Authorities. Egyptian coast guards have arrested 109 Syrians and Palestinians who tried to travel illegally across the sea to Italy, last...