IRBIL, Iraq (McClatchy) — A former French intelligence officer who defected to al Qaida was among the targets of the first wave of U.S. air strikes in Syria last month, according to people familiar with the defector’s movements and...
(AFP)- A Franciscan priest and 20 other Christians have been seized by the Nusra Front in a village in northwestern Syria, the Franciscan mission to the Holy Land said Tuesday. "On the night of October 5th, Father Hanna Jallouf of the Custody of the Holy Land, parish...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria has declared four chemical weapons facilities it hadn't mentioned before, a special representative of the U.N. secretary-general told the Security Council on Tuesday. The news heightened concerns that the Syrian government hasn't been fully open...
(AFP)- The international community should immediately act to defend the key Syrian border town of Kobane, on the verge of falling to the jihadist Islamic State group, the UN's peace envoy to Syria said on Tuesday. "The world, all of us, will regret deeply if ISIS (Islamic State)...
