(Reuters) - An audio message purportedly from a Japanese journalist being held by Islamic State militants said a Jordanian air force pilot also captured by the group would be killed unless an Iraqi female prisoner in Jordan was released by sunset on Thursday. The message...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb exploded in a rebel-held town of Daraa province Wednesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens, activists said. The blast in Muzayrib town came two days after the humiliating defeat of Syrian regime forces in...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on Wednesday killed 5 people, 2 children and 3 women, in the rebel-held city of Douma near Damascus, according the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Activists said Bashar al-Assad’s helicopters...

(Al Arabiya News)- In his latest interview, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “voiced untruths with confidence,” the editor who spoke to him told NPR on Wednesday, while likening him to Hitler. Foreign Affairs managing editor Jonathan Tepperman revealed his thoughts about Assad...