(Reuters)- Supporters of Islamist Nusra Front, a group linked to al-Qaida, said on Twitter on Sunday that the group is demanding the release of Abu Mussab al-Suri, a top al-Qaida leader, in exchange for 44 UNDOF peacekeepers from Fiji detained since Thursday. Al-Suri, a Syrian...

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(AFP)- Four soldiers and a police officer kidnapped in the east of Lebanon nearly a month ago have been freed by the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda. The five "taken hostage by the al-Nusra Front have been freed and have arrived in Arsal," a Lebanese town on the border with Syria, a...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights on Saturday issued a report estimating that up to 85,000 people have been forcibly disappeared by President Assad's forces since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, according to MiddileEastEye. Read the full report Normal...

(Reuters) - The head of the Fijian army said on Sunday negotiations for the release of 44 soldiers seized by an al Qaeda-linked group on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights were being pursued but he worried there had been no word on where his men are being held. The U.N....

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(Reuters) - Thirty-two Philippine U.N. peacekeepers were rescued on Saturday from Islamists who fired at their post on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights and trapped them for two days, U.N. officials said, while militants reinforced their siege of another group of 40. "The...

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By New republic-Josh Kovesky Al Qaeda is like AOL. The Islamic State is Google. That's how one expert explains why Al Qaeda members are defecting  to ISIS, joining the thousands  of Western jihadists who have flocked to the organization that even Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's...

(Reuters) - A mounting death toll in President Bashar al-Assad's armed forces is causing alarm among some government loyalists who are worried about Islamic State's territorial gains and are turning their anger on the authorities in Damascus. The execution of scores of Syrian...

(Reuters) - The United Nations on Friday said it had been informed that the Islamist militants who seized 44 Fijian peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights did so "for their own protection" and that all the detained blue-helmeted soldiers are safe. U.N. officials had...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- As radical Islamic State group inflicts humiliating defeats on Bashar al-Assad’s armed forces east Syria, pro-regime activists’ rage has been sparking through social media, turning their anger on Assad’s military leadership. The execution of scores of...

(AFP)- Syrian government forces on Friday bombarded the Jubar eastern district of Damascus in a fierce offensive aimed at wresting control of the key sector back from rebels, multiple reports said. Jubar has been in insurgent hands for a year, and is strategic because it provides...

The number of refugees from the conflict in Syria now tops three million, the United Nations said on Friday, as US President Barack Obama admitted he still has no strategy to tackle advancing jihadists. UN refugee agency chief Antonio Guterres said that Syria now constituted the...

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(Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian regime forces on Thursday have launched a major offensive on Jobar neighborhood in Damascus on Thursday, using the aerial bombardment and ground-to-ground missiles, activists and a monitoring group said. Activists said that...

In Syria's Aleppo, devastated by two years of fighting and regime attacks, rebels and activists are eager for US strikes against jihadists they say have stolen their anti-government uprising. The United States has yet to decide on whether it will carry out air strikes in Syria...

(AFP)- At 13, Samiha left school and the home she shared with 10 people near Baalbek in eastern Lebanon to live in a tent with her new husband, a 41-year-old tradesman. "I didn't feel anything, I didn't have a choice," she said of the marriage, arranged by her father. "The...

The United Nations confirmed that an armed group captured 43 UN peacekeepers on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Thursday, saying it was doing everything to secure their release. "Forty-three peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) were...