Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate lost ground to its jihadist rivals around a town on the Iraqi border on Thursday in heavy fighting that left 24 people dead, Agence France-Presse reported a monitoring group as saying. Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a...

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  Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters captured Wednesday the last major town in the Qalamoun region near the border with Lebanon after weeks of intense fighting, state media and activists said. Syrian TV and Lebanon's Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar station said the town of...

Sources revealed last week that Islamist rebels had arrested militants from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards near Aleppo, Syrian north. A resident from border village with Turkey, who refused to mention his village name, confirmed that an Iranian captive is captured by an...