The body of a Lebanese soldier killed after being taken captive by the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front was handed over to a Lebanese security agency and the Red Cross on Tuesday, the state news agency reported. A security source said the return of the body of Mohamed Hamieh was the...

The White House said on Monday it has seen "some intensification" of Russian air strikes against Islamic State in Syria during the past several weeks. White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters that Russia previously had infrequently targeted...

( NOW )- Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani has purportedly spoken with an Iranian newspaper amid reports he was injured in Syria.   In an interview Sunday with Al-Waqt, Soleimani praised former Iranian Ambassador to...

Russian jets bombed Sunday a bakery built by a Turkish humanitarian agency in the city of Idlib, northwestern Syria. The bakery was established 16 months ago by the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) and it produced about 65,000 loafs of bread per day serving about 40,000 people, the...