Al-Qaeda extremists  chops down 150-year-old tree in Syria because people would go to it for blessings. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has chopped down a long-lived tree in Otmeh border area near Turkey over people belief its  blessed which is a...

Divisions in rebel ranks and more committed loyalist fighters are helping the Syrian regime notch up military victories that would give it the upper hand at peace talks, analysts and rebels say. The army's capture this week of the strategic town of Qara, north of Damascus, followed...

Bader Jamous, the secretary General of the national coalition declared that national coalition is the only body in the opposition can decide participants in Geneva 2, because it is the only internationally recognized body of the opposition, according to the Arab League’s decision....

An al Qaeda affiliate has captured a northern Syrian town on the border with Turkey after ousting a moderate Islamist rebel unit and detained its leader, activists said on Thursday. The fall of the town of Atma, a crossing point for weapons and for Syrian rebels, signals disarray among...