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By New republic-Josh Kovesky Al Qaeda is like AOL. The Islamic State is Google. That's how one expert explains why Al Qaeda members are defecting to ISIS, joining the thousands of Western jihadists who have flocked to the organization that even Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's...
(Reuters) - A mounting death toll in President Bashar al-Assad's armed forces is causing alarm among some government loyalists who are worried about Islamic State's territorial gains and are turning their anger on the authorities in Damascus. The execution of scores of Syrian...
(Reuters) - The United Nations on Friday said it had been informed that the Islamist militants who seized 44 Fijian peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights did so "for their own protection" and that all the detained blue-helmeted soldiers are safe. U.N. officials had...
(Zaman Alwasl)- As radical Islamic State group inflicts humiliating defeats on Bashar al-Assad’s armed forces east Syria, pro-regime activists’ rage has been sparking through social media, turning their anger on Assad’s military leadership. The execution of scores of...
(AFP)- Syrian government forces on Friday bombarded the Jubar eastern district of Damascus in a fierce offensive aimed at wresting control of the key sector back from rebels, multiple reports said. Jubar has been in insurgent hands for a year, and is strategic because it provides...
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(Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian regime forces on Thursday have launched a major offensive on Jobar neighborhood in Damascus on Thursday, using the aerial bombardment and ground-to-ground missiles, activists and a monitoring group said. Activists said that...
In Syria's Aleppo, devastated by two years of fighting and regime attacks, rebels and activists are eager for US strikes against jihadists they say have stolen their anti-government uprising. The United States has yet to decide on whether it will carry out air strikes in Syria...
The United Nations confirmed that an armed group captured 43 UN peacekeepers on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Thursday, saying it was doing everything to secure their release. "Forty-three peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) were...
Islamic State jihadists have executed "dozens" of fleeing Syrian soldiers, a monitor said Thursday, the latest in a string of brutal abuses alarming Western powers who fear a global spread of the terror. News of the killings comes as US President Barack Obama is reportedly...
(Zaman Alwasl)- Commander of al-Omari brigades in south Syria was killed when an activist works in media shot him dead in Jalin village in Daraa province, activists and a monitoring group said. Former ٍSyrian army defector, Captain Qais Qataena, was...
(Zaman Alwasl)- The media center of al-Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front posted online tens of photos showing Quneitra border crossing, a day after taking control of the post situated on the line dividing Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights....
(Zaman Alwasl- Reuters) - Islamic State militants have executed Syrian army soldiers who were held as captives after capturing an air base in northeast Syria at the weekend, footage and pictures posted on social media by supporters showed on Thursday. The footage showed tens of...
(Zaman Alwasl)- The trauma of Tabqa airbase fall last Sunday by Islamic State group has been continued with tens of pleas by mothers and families of missing Syrian army soldiers who believed to be held captives by IS, which controls swathes of territory in...
(Reuters) - The Lebanese army shelled militant positions in the border zone with Syria on Wednesday near a town that was seized by Islamist insurgents earlier this month, a security source said. It was the first such engagement since the radical Sunni Muslim militants including...
An American woman has pleaded for the life of her journalist son, held hostage in Syria by the Islamic State group, just over a week after self-declared jihadists beheaded a fellow US reporter and threatened more murders. In a video released on Wednesday, Shirley Sotloff directly...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Council on Wednesday said it was aware of media reports that a second American associated with Islamic State militant fighters had been killed in Syria, but it could not confirm the death. The reports came a day after a U.S....
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian jets shelled rebel positions near a border crossing close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that was seized by rebels in some of the heaviest clashes in the strategic area this year, rebels and residents said on Thursday. Al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra...
(AFP)- Syria's President Bashar al-Assad formed a new government on Wednesday, two months after his reelection, leaving key ministries untouched as a brutal war continues to ravage his country. The new line-up includes 11 new ministers, but leaves Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi,...
