A U.S.-led program to train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants will start in May, Turkey's Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency on Tuesday. U.S. officials have said they plan to train about 5,000 Syrian fighters a year...

At least 17 people have been killed in Syrian regime air strikes on the rebel-held city of Idlib north of Syria two days since an alliance of Islamist groups have seized the city for the first time in Syria's civil war, activists said. Fatah Army, an alliance which...

A medic from Hamas was killed in the Yarmuk refugee camp south of the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, the Palestinian Islamist movement said. The movement said in a statement that it "mourns the death of the jihadist brother, the martyr, Yehya...

Syrian activists said bodies of 5 brothers from southern province of Daraa were identified by leaked mass torture photos. Jihad, Mohamed, Ahmed, Ridha and khaled Younes Sorour were arrested by Syrian regime forces on August 6 2012. The sixth brother,...