(Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian activists say more than 140, ooo Syrian refugees in the border town of Arsal are facing severe siege imposed by Lebanese government and Hezbollah militia as the humanitarian aid is blocked. The Lebanese government...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 70 members of the Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist organization have been killed in two days of clashes with the Syrian Army over al-Tabaqa military airport, the only bastion still in the hands of the regime in Raqqa province...

Washington (AFP) - Some 12,000 foreign jihadists from 50 countries, including Americans, have gone to fight in Syria since the conflict began, the US State Department said Thursday. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, estimated that more than 100 US citizens have...

Islamic State cannot be defeated without addressing “both sides of what is essentially at this point a nonexistent border” between Iraq and Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday. The United States and its allies in the Middle East and beyond need to...