(The Daily Star)- The Lebanese Army announced Thursday that it had arrested three people involved in transferring funds from Lebanon to Syria to fund armed groups. Lebanese national Mohammad Dahrouj, who had previously been arrested for smuggling rockets, was one of the three suspects arrested...

Around a third of the 200,000 people living in the Syrian town of Palmyra may have fled in the past few days, during fighting between government forces and Islamic State militants, the U.N. human rights office said on Thursday. Citing what she said were credible sources, U.N. human rights...

At least 40 rebels were killed as an army airstrike on their base in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo triggered a huge explosion Thursday, a monitoring group said. The Islamist rebels had shells stored at the base, which magnified the blast, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head, Rami...

Al-Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, said on Thursday it had released 27 Islamic State fighters who were arrested week ago with 23 others in the mountainous region of Qalamoun near the Lebanese border. Nusra's Shariah court said the freed fighters 'had not involved in killing acts against...