BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamist rebels waged a counter-offensive in Syria's border town of Albu Kamal on Saturday, challenging the grip of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which has seized large areas on each side of the crumbling Iraqi-Syrian frontier. Earlier...

(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) THE Local Council in Rastan, appealed to all aid & relief and humanitarian agencies to help Rastan and break the siege forced on the town by the regime, as Homs Council had disconnected all...

A suggestion by Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil Friday that refugee camps be set up along the country's border with Syria was swiftly rejected by Damascus's ambassador. Bassil "met ambassadors from the powerful five permanent members of the UN Security Council today...

(AFP)- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Friday executed and crucified one of its own men for corruption in Syria, a watchdog and jihadist sites said. Photographs posted on websites showed the body and bloodied head of a bearded man with a placard reading: “Guilty: Abu...