The Islamic political parties to increase in Syria, days after establishing al- Waad party (The Promise) by Muslim Brotherhood, 40 Islamic dissidents to meet in Istanbul very shortly to put a framework and stucture for a new political party to be known by its Arabic name, ...

  Islamist groups in northern Syria are weakening after months of fighting and Kurdish militias are gaining ground, a top Kurdish leader said on Wednesday, vowing to continue their advances. Saleh Muslim, head of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Reuters...

  Attacks against Shiites, including a suicide bombing that ripped through a religious procession, killed 39 people in Iraq Thursday despite massive security deployed for one of the holiest days of their faith.   The bloodshed came as a flood of...

Hezbollah fighters are going to stay in Syria “as long as they are needed” by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces battling rebels, head of the Shiite movement, Hassan Nasrallah, said during his second appearance in public marking a Shiite religious occasion. “As long as the reasons...