Fragments from mortars fired by Islamic State militants at Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq earlier this month tested positive in a U.S. military field test for the chemical weapons agent sulfur mustard, a U.S. general said on Friday. Marine Corps Brigadier General Kevin...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The siege imposed by Syrian regime on the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus is 800-day-old now, with180 death cases and 400 days without water and 850 days without electricity, a monitoring group tracks the breaches committed against Palestinians in...

A second group of rebel fighters trained in Turkey by the U.S.-led coalition could be deployed to Syria within weeks as part of a campaign to push Islamic State insurgents away from the border, diplomatic sources told Reuters on Friday. The United States and Turkey plan to...

Macedonian police firing tear gas and stun grenades drove back crowds of migrants and refugees trying to enter from Greece on Friday, sealing the frontier to thousands of Syrians, Afghans and others trying to reach western Europe. The Balkan country declared a state of emergency on...

Israel said it killed four Palestinian militants in an air strike on the Syrian Golan Heights on Friday, after cross-border rocket fire from Syria prompted the heaviest Israeli bombardment since the start of Syria's four-year-old civil war. An Israeli defence official said the...

Islamic State militants have demolished a monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Thursday, in a strategically located town the jihadist group wrested from government control earlier this month. The group has also transferred several dozen Christians,...

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The United States and its allies launched 16 air strikes on ISIS-held town of Qaryatayn east of Homs, destroying number of civilians buildings, the hardline group said on Thursday, assuring no casualties reported amid its fighters. The hardline group said the U.S.-led raids coincided with...

Syrian state TV confirmed Israeli air strikes on the Golan Heights on Thursday, and said only material damage was done. The state TV report quoted a military source as saying that "several missiles" had targeted a transportation center and a public building in the Quneitra area of...

Syrian rebels on Thursday took two checkpoints in Bloudan resort, the next-door village of Zabadani, a move came to ease the 50-day brutal offensive on the mountainous city to capture it from rebels. Fighters of dominant Ahrar al-Sham movement and the al-Qaeda branch Nusra Front have taken...

Typhoid has broken out among residents of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning of further disease outbreaks unless aid reached the camp because of the appalling conditions there. Eleven cases of typhoid were confirmed by the U.N....

The hardline Islamic State group, in statement dated on Wednesday, said it had killed a senior commander in the al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front last Monday in southern city of Daraa. Ahmed Mohamed al-Falouji, Nusra's security official in Daraa, was assassinated by ISIS fighters who broke...

Southern Front fighters have thwarted on Wednesday an attack launched by regime forces and allied Shiite militias on border town with Jordan, activists said. The key unit of the moderate Free Syrian Army repelled a major attack carried out by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad on al-Mousaima...

Syrian regime aerial bombardment of rebel-held town of Harasta northeast of Damascus left at least 12 people dead, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Wednesday. The attacks on Harasta, in the Eastern Ghouta region, killed members of the town's council, civil defense, and police...

 US, allies target ISIS with 26 airstrikes in Syria, Iraq The United States and its allies launched 26 airstrikes Tuesday against ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq, according to the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations. In Iraq, 18 airstrikes targeted the militant...

  A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people on Wednesday in an attack on Kurdish security forces in northeastern Syria claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast in the city of Qamishli killed 10 members of...

(CNN)- This is what a Syrian rebel looks like after nearly $1 million of training and equipment provided by the United States. Pro-U.S. -- and fiercely anti-Assad regime -- fighter Abu Iskander is one of just 54 moderate rebels painstakingly vetted, expensively trained and equipped with...

(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Rama al-Hamwi, a 30- year-old lady from Hama, a university graduated from Economy college in Aleppo, live difficult life as she suffers of cancer besides the war circumstances which limit her chances to receive treatment. ...

Syrian government forces recaptured four northwestern villages Tuesday as they pounded the area with airstrikes in a counter-attack on insurgents threatening strongholds of President Bashar Assad, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Government warplanes by Tuesday...

Well-informed sources said on Wednesday Syrian regime army backed by Lebanese ally Hezbollah may take full control of  the besieged city of Zabadani in the few coming hours after a 50-day campaign to capture it from rebels.  Rebel sources said the fall of the city, about 45 km (30...