Some 250 residents of Syria's Raqqa province are the latest batch to graduate from a brief U.S. training course. They are part of an internal security force to hold and secure areas as they are captured from Daesh (ISIS) militants. The graduation ceremony Thursday in the desert town of Ain...

She was trafficked into Raqa as a sex slave by the Islamic State group but managed to escape. Now Yazidi fighter Heza is back to avenge the horrors she and thousands of others suffered. Her hair tucked under a tightly wrapped forest green shawl embroidered with flowers, Heza says battling IS...

An attack on Lebanese troops raiding a Syrian refugee camp has stirred violent debate and polarised opinions, with rising calls to repatriate refugees but also warnings against racist rhetoric. The uptick in pressure comes after Lebanese soldiers were attacked as they stormed two refugee...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey-backed rebel factions may join Ahrar al-Sham in its fight against the former al-Qaeda branch in Syria as fierce clashes take place in northern Idlib province since Tuesday, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.  Turkey-backed Euphrates Shield, an alliance of moderate...