Islamic State militants have demolished a monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Thursday, in a strategically located town the jihadist group wrested from government control earlier this month. The group has also transferred several dozen Christians,...

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The United States and its allies launched 16 air strikes on ISIS-held town of Qaryatayn east of Homs, destroying number of civilians buildings, the hardline group said on Thursday, assuring no casualties reported amid its fighters. The hardline group said the U.S.-led raids coincided with...

Syrian state TV confirmed Israeli air strikes on the Golan Heights on Thursday, and said only material damage was done. The state TV report quoted a military source as saying that "several missiles" had targeted a transportation center and a public building in the Quneitra area of...

Syrian rebels on Thursday took two checkpoints in Bloudan resort, the next-door village of Zabadani, a move came to ease the 50-day brutal offensive on the mountainous city to capture it from rebels. Fighters of dominant Ahrar al-Sham movement and the al-Qaeda branch Nusra Front have taken...

Typhoid has broken out among residents of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning of further disease outbreaks unless aid reached the camp because of the appalling conditions there. Eleven cases of typhoid were confirmed by the U.N....

The hardline Islamic State group, in statement dated on Wednesday, said it had killed a senior commander in the al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front last Monday in southern city of Daraa. Ahmed Mohamed al-Falouji, Nusra's security official in Daraa, was assassinated by ISIS fighters who broke...

Southern Front fighters have thwarted on Wednesday an attack launched by regime forces and allied Shiite militias on border town with Jordan, activists said. The key unit of the moderate Free Syrian Army repelled a major attack carried out by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad on al-Mousaima...

Syrian regime aerial bombardment of rebel-held town of Harasta northeast of Damascus left at least 12 people dead, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Wednesday. The attacks on Harasta, in the Eastern Ghouta region, killed members of the town's council, civil defense, and police...

 US, allies target ISIS with 26 airstrikes in Syria, Iraq The United States and its allies launched 26 airstrikes Tuesday against ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq, according to the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations. In Iraq, 18 airstrikes targeted the militant...

  A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people on Wednesday in an attack on Kurdish security forces in northeastern Syria claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast in the city of Qamishli killed 10 members of...

(CNN)- This is what a Syrian rebel looks like after nearly $1 million of training and equipment provided by the United States. Pro-U.S. -- and fiercely anti-Assad regime -- fighter Abu Iskander is one of just 54 moderate rebels painstakingly vetted, expensively trained and equipped with...

Syrian government forces recaptured four northwestern villages Tuesday as they pounded the area with airstrikes in a counter-attack on insurgents threatening strongholds of President Bashar Assad, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Government warplanes by Tuesday...

Well-informed sources said on Wednesday Syrian regime army backed by Lebanese ally Hezbollah may take full control of  the besieged city of Zabadani in the few coming hours after a 50-day campaign to capture it from rebels.  Rebel sources said the fall of the city, about 45 km (30...

Islamic State (IS) militants beheaded an antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his body on a column in a main square of the historic site, Syria's antiquities chief said on Tuesday. IS, whose insurgents control swathes of Syria and Iraq, captured Palmyra in...

 Syrian rebels on Tuesday have executed an ISIS fighter and hung his body on a column in a main square of the northern town of Marea near Aleppo, saying he was an in-charge for suicide bombs in the radical Sunni group. Omar Haj Omar was charged by spying on rebels and organizing number...

  A senior commander in the al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front was killed  on Monday  in southern city of Daraa by unidentified gunmen, activists said. Ahmed Mohamed al-Falouji, Nusra's security official in Daraa, was assassinated by unknown group broke into a...

The UN Security Council Monday backed a push for Syrian peace talks as the death toll in government air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus neared 100, sparking global outrage. It came just hours after UN officials expressed horror over Sunday's deadly raids on Douma, among the...

The Syrian military bombarded an area northeast of Damascus on Monday, keeping up its attack on a rebel-held district where around 100 people were killed on Sunday in an air strike on a market, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Sunday's air strike on Douma, 10 miles (15 km)...

Turkey still faces the risk of being hit by Syrian missiles, a NATO official has told Anadolu Agency. The claim follows news that the U.S. and Germany will not renew their deployment of missile defense systems in the country. In a written statement on Monday, the NATO official -- on...