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Al Qaeda freed leader of Hama Military Council

  Radical Islamic group, the State of Iraq and the Levant freed the leader of Hama province military council after days of abduction in Sarakeb in Idlib province, local sources said. Brigadier Ahmed Berri has been freed after a timeout was given to the ISIL...

Syria refugee toddler dies in Lebanon tent fire

A Syrian toddler died Sunday when a fire ripped through the family tent in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon, a security official told AFP.   "Mahmud al-Arfan, who was 18 months old, was burned alive when the tent where his family lived caught fire," the official...

First UN aid flight takes off from Iraq for Syria

The first United Nations aid flight from Iraq to Syria took off on Sunday after being delayed for several days due to bad weather, an AFP journalist said. The plane departed the Arbil airport in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region around 3:30 pm (1230 GMT), and was expected to arrive in...