BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels using improvised mortar bombs made of cooking gas canisters killed 311 civilians between July and December this year, a monitoring group said on Friday, condemning the use of the wildly inaccurate weapons. Two-thirds of the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies carried out 27 airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq in the past three days, U.S. military officials said on Friday. Fighting positions, buildings and fortifications were hit in seven attacks...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists have circulated online video showing how Syrian rebels and Islamist battalions stormed regime bases in the embattled town of Daraya west Damascus during this week, taking control on few points after violent...

Germany has announced it is considering sending around 100 soldiers to northern Iraq to train peshmerga forces who are fighting the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told journalists at the Federal...