(Anadolu News Agency)- The Syrian regime has used chemical gas 49 times in attacks spanning 17 regions during the last year, opposition activists have claimed. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Tuesday that attacks after Sept. 27 2013 – when the U.N. adopted a...

MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Iraqi peshmerga fighters prepared Saturday to battle Islamic State group militants in the Syrian border town of Kobani, just hours after they arrived in a town that's become a focal point in the battle against the extremists. The force brought in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. fighter and bomber planes have launched five attacks against Islamic State militants near Kobani, Syria and five in Iraq since Friday, Central Command said on Saturday. The Kobani strikes "suppressed or destroyed" nine Islamic State...

(Reuters) - A mortar fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel , the Israeli military said on Saturday, the second such incident since a seven-week war in the Palestinian enclave ended in August. Hours after the projectile struck harmlessly, there was no Israeli...