France's foreign minister has called for the US-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)  to help rebels in Syria's second city Aleppo hold out against the Damascus regime. Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday that the coalition should not battle...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Islamic State militants in Syria forced children as young as 14 to watch videos of beheadings and beat them with cables during six months of captivity, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. The Sunni Muslim militants abducted a group...

(Al Jazeera)- Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has declared "victory" for his movement against self-declared jihadists in Syria as tens of thousands of Shia Muslims gathered in Beirut to commemorate Ashura. The Shia armed group has sent thousands of fighters into neighbouring...

The U.S. State Department plans to cut its entire $500,000 in annual funding next year to an organization dedicated to sneaking into abandoned Syrian military bases, prisons, and government facilities to collect documents and other evidence linking Syrian President Bashar...