(Reuters) - “Do you know how much it hurts to raise someone and watch them grow and suddenly they’re just gone?” says Ahmed Muthana, 57, a retired electronics engineer in Wales whose two sons Nasser, 20, and Aseel, 17, have gone to fight for Islamic State. Like any father...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Violent clashes on Tuesday took place between Syrian regime forces and the Islamic battalions in Quneitra province amid reports of slow advances by the rebels, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Al HASAKAH (Zaman Al Wasl) – Syrian social media pages, loyal to Bashar al-Assad, have circulated photos showing militants of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards accompanied by...

(Reuters) - Iraq believes Islamic State militants have stolen more than one million tonnes of grain from the country's north and taken it to two cities they control in neighboring Syria , the agriculture minister has said. Falah Hassan al-Zeidan said in a statement...