Islamic State has sanctioned the harvesting of human organs in a previously undisclosed ruling by the group’s Islamic scholars, raising concerns that the violent extremist group may be trafficking in body parts.     The ruling, contained in a January 31, 2015...

A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab rebel groups advanced toward a dam in northern Syria held by Islamic State fighters on Thursday, in an assault aimed at capturing the militants' stronghold of Raqqa, rebels and a monitor said. They said the push by fighters of the Democratic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian fighter jets have killed 10 civilians, mostly drivers, on Thursday in an attack on a fuel convoy in the northern countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said. Russia's vacuum missile attacks have targeted the convoy between the towns of Ehrus and Harbel near the Turkish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One Islam Army fighter has been killed on Thursday in clashes with an-ISIS-linked group in Dumeir city east of Damascus, the local coordination said. The infighting has renewed after nearly two weeks of fragile truce between Islam Army and Jaish al-Tahrir, or Liberation Army,...