(Reuters) - Thirty-two Philippine U.N. peacekeepers were rescued on Saturday from Islamists who fired at their post on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights and trapped them for two days, U.N. officials said, while militants reinforced their siege of another group of 40. "The...

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By New republic-Josh Kovesky Al Qaeda is like AOL. The Islamic State is Google. That's how one expert explains why Al Qaeda members are defecting  to ISIS, joining the thousands  of Western jihadists who have flocked to the organization that even Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's...

(Reuters) - A mounting death toll in President Bashar al-Assad's armed forces is causing alarm among some government loyalists who are worried about Islamic State's territorial gains and are turning their anger on the authorities in Damascus. The execution of scores of Syrian...