An American man suspected of fighting with Islamic State militants operating in Iraq and Syria has been killed in the region, a U.S. security official said on Monday. The official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters that the FBI was investigating the death of 33-year-old...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Members of the hardline Islamic State group, which seized Mosul in June and also controls swathes of territory in neighboring Syria, have shot, beheaded and crucified 3473 people, mostly Syrians, since the group appeared in Syria in 2013,...

(CNN) -- The shocking video of James Foley being beheaded in Syria has set off multiple investigations into the mystery of who killed the American journalist. A day after the British ambassador to the United States said that experts in his country are close to identifying...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Rebel factions on Monday in embattled Eastern Ghouta agreed to appoint Islam Army commander as General Chief, days after the fall of strategic Mleiha town by Syrian army forces. Source to Zaman Alwasl said rebels in neighboring suburbs...

(AP) — The U.S. has begun surveillance flights over Syria after President Barack Obama gave the OK, U.S. officials said, a move that could pave the way for airstrikes against Islamic State militant targets there. While the White House says Obama has not approved military action...

(Reuters) - Qatar is working to help free four Americans held hostage in Syria by various armed groups, a Gulf source familiar with the matter said on Monday, a day after the Gulf Arab state's diplomacy helped free a journalist held since 2012. The source declined to name...

    (Zaman Alwasl)- As the Islamic State reflects humiliating defeats on Bashar al-Assad’s forces east Syria, pro-regime activists’ rage has been sparked through social media, demanding oust of Defence Minister....

(Reuters) - The United Nations condemned on Monday "appalling, widespread" crimes by Islamic State forces in Iraq , including mass executions of prisoners that could amount to war crimes. U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay condemned "grave, horrific human rights violations"...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl)- Following Mario Zenari’s, the pope's Syria envoy, opinion about the situation in Syria, Burhan Ghalioun, the first President of the National Council, revealed on his Facebook page that many attempts to meet...

BEIRUT (AP) — While offering to assist any international effort to fight Islamic State militants, Syria's foreign minister warned the U.S. Monday not to conduct airstrikes against the group inside Syria without Damascus' consent, saying any such attack would be considered an...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Activists of Daraya, south-west outskirts of the Syrian capital, said all efforts to reach a truce have been postponed by regime. People of Daraya, a poor Sunni community, are looking for a long-term truce allowing them to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. mourned an American journalist executed by Islamic militants, the nation found something of a reprieve with the release of another freelance reporter who had been held hostage for nearly two years by an al-Qaida-linked group in Syria. Peter Theo...

ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — Gen. Martin Dempsey says that once he determines that the Islamic State militants in Iraq have become a direct threat to the U.S. homeland, he will recommend the U.S. military move directly against the group in Syria. But the chairman of the...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Rebels have killed 4 Islamic State’s fighters, including an American jihadist, near Marea town northern Aleppo on Sunday, field source told Zaman Alwasl. Source said the American jihadist was planning to carry a suicide operation in the...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Pro-Islamic State activists and supporters praised the efforts made by IS newly military commander (Emir) in Raqqa as the militant group has captured of Tabqa airbase, some 40 km (25 miles) east of the city of Raqqa. The foreign...

(AFP)- Syrian troops killed 32 rebels in an ambush in the southern province of Daraa in the early hours of Sunday morning, a monitoring group said. The ambush was also reported by Syrian state television, which said "tens of terrorists" had been killed in the attack in the west...

    HAMA (Zaman Alwasl)- Activists and monitoring group have reported violent clashes between regime forces backed by National Defence Forces and Hezbollah against rebels in Hama countryside. Rebels have killed at least 10 Syrian army troops...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Islamic State fighters on Sunday have captured al-Tabqa airbase in Raqqa province after 4 days of fierce fighting with forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad, a monitoring group and pro-IS activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said...

Rocket fire from Syria slammed into the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights Sunday but there were no reports of casualties. "At least five rockets fired from Syria hit different locations across the Golan Heights," the Israeli army said in a statement. An army...

Damascus, Aug 24 (IANS) Syrian tribesmen killed 18 Islamic State (IS) fighters in the oil-rich province of Deir al-Zour in eastern Syria Saturday, media reports said. The Ukaydat tribesmen succeeded in freeing their leader Sheikh Khalil Jadan, who was kidnapped by IS fighters...