The Islamic state is preparing to overrun Tabqa military airport near Raqa city, a day after seizing control of Regime’s military base, Brigade 93, sources say. Islamic State's momentum has raised fears amid Syrian armed opposition and the...

  The Islamic State has executed 19 men at Al-Omar oil field which it captured on July 3, a monitoring group said. Most of the men were shot dead, with one of them decapitated, "in one of the bloodiest executions", according to the Britain-based...

Almost three quarters of Syria’s entire chemical stockpile has been destroyed, the world’s chemical weapons watchdog said on Thursday, after another 190 tonnes of agents were incinerated in Britain. “The OPCW confirmed today (Thursday) that 74.2 percent of Syria’s entire...

(AFP)- At least 27 Syrian regime forces have been killed in a jihadist assault on a military base in the northern province of Raqa, a monitoring group told Agence France-Presse on Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 14 jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq...