The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency warned Lebanese officials last week that al Qaida-linked groups are planning a campaign of bombings that will target Beirut’s Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs as well as other political targets associated with the group or its allies in Syria, Lebanese...

  None hurt by fallout from intensified battles between Syrian army and rebels; Israeli defense minister says Israel will respond if its interests are threatened, according to Israeli newspapers. Ten mortar shells exploded on the occupied Golan Heights from early Tuesday...

 Syria's opposition coalition wants to create a 10-person executive council to reorganize disparate rebel factions into a structured army with adequate financing and weapons, one of its senior members said on Monday. Islamist militant groups that have come to the fore in Syria...

  An Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda has arrested 1500 activists in Ar Raqqa, northeast Syria, after continuous series of abuses of Human rights the state of Iraq and al-Sham, according to Zaman Alwasl Arabic. Another sources from the city said that the real number...