BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union imposed sanctions on Tuesday on 12 Syrian government ministers, two senior military figures and a United Arab Emirates company it accused of helping supply oil to Syria. The moves were part of a gradual tightening of EU...

Kurdish fighters in the battleground Syrian town of Kobane weathered an onslaught by Islamic State group militants on Tuesday as they awaited promised reinforcements. The Kurdish militia faced a fierce attack by IS fighters, including suicide bombers, late on Monday, that appeared...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Key rebel group Soqour al-Sham has mourned senior commander killed on Monday in the ongoing clashes in Hama province, activists said. The general commander, Abu Issa al-Sheikh, in statement posted online, mourned Raddad Khallouf, the field...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 fighters of Nusra Front have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, defecting al-Qaeda wing in Syria to fight US- led coalition with the mother group, monitoring body said on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human...