Islamic State (IS) militants beheaded an antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his body on a column in a main square of the historic site, Syria's antiquities chief said on Tuesday. IS, whose insurgents control swathes of Syria and Iraq, captured Palmyra in...

 Syrian rebels on Tuesday have executed an ISIS fighter and hung his body on a column in a main square of the northern town of Marea near Aleppo, saying he was an in-charge for suicide bombs in the radical Sunni group. Omar Haj Omar was charged by spying on rebels and organizing number...

  A senior commander in the al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front was killed  on Monday  in southern city of Daraa by unidentified gunmen, activists said. Ahmed Mohamed al-Falouji, Nusra's security official in Daraa, was assassinated by unknown group broke into a...

The UN Security Council Monday backed a push for Syrian peace talks as the death toll in government air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus neared 100, sparking global outrage. It came just hours after UN officials expressed horror over Sunday's deadly raids on Douma, among the...