Myanmar’s junta now only controls 21% of the country. Even if the regime can be ousted, there are increasing fears the ...

The Syrian Military Operations Administration has been pressing its security campaigns aimed at disarming former regime ...

The rebels would be joined by some Al-Assad-era conscripts. Like Syrian Kurds, Hekmat al-Hijri, the spiritual leader of the Druze, a sect considered heretics by mainstream Islam, vowed that the ...

Syria interim Defense Ministry has reportedly agreed with the majority of armed factions on forming a unified army local online newspaper Al-Watan re ...

The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...

Ahram Online spoke to Geir Pedersen, UN special envoy to Syria, who draws a road map that identifies the obstacles and ...

With its wide boulevards and tree-lined neighborhoods, Homs bustled with business, an oil refinery, and agricultural ...

Syrian state media said a five-day security ... the transitional government has been registering former conscripts and soldiers and asking them to relinquish their arms. Authorities said ...

Syrian security forces are conducting an operation ... the transitional government has been registering former conscripts and soldiers and asking them to relinquish their arms.

Syria was once a net exporter of wheat ... and forced men to pay thousands of dollars to avoid conscription. To its credit, the interim government has put a halt to such extortion.

professional army composed of volunteers rather than conscripts, an official from the ministry was quoted as saying. The ministry also plans to integrate the former Free Syrian Army into the ...