(Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish fighters have joined the fight against Islamic State militants in Kobani, hoping their support for fellow Kurds backed by U.S.-led air strikes will keep the ultra-hardline group from seizing the Syrian border town. The Syrian Observatory for Human...

A newspaper close to Syria's regime criticised new UN peace envoy Staffan De Mistura for the first time Sunday over his call for ceasefire zones to allow for aid deliveries. "De Mistura has been vested with a clear mission based on a solution to the crisis through negotiations...

(AFP)- Nearly 2,000 people have died in Syrian prisons of torture, starvation and lack of medical treatment so far this year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. The Britain-based monitor said it had documented 1,917 deaths in Syrian prisons since the start...

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(Reuters) - Islamist militants affiliated to al Qaeda seized the last remaining stronghold of Western-backed rebels in Syria's northwest province of Idlib on Saturday after days of fighting, rebels and a monitoring group said. Backed by other hardline Islamist groups, the Nusra...

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(Reuters) - The White House and Pentagon sought to portray a unified stance on Syria on Friday after reports that a memo from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel criticized U.S. strategy as fuzzy on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said U.S....

(Anadolu News Agency)- The Syrian regime has used chemical gas 49 times in attacks spanning 17 regions during the last year, opposition activists have claimed. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Tuesday that attacks after Sept. 27 2013 – when the U.N. adopted a...

MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Iraqi peshmerga fighters prepared Saturday to battle Islamic State group militants in the Syrian border town of Kobani, just hours after they arrived in a town that's become a focal point in the battle against the extremists. The force brought in badly...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. fighter and bomber planes have launched five attacks against Islamic State militants near Kobani, Syria and five in Iraq since Friday, Central Command said on Saturday. The Kobani strikes "suppressed or destroyed" nine Islamic State...

(Reuters) - A mortar fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel , the Israeli military said on Saturday, the second such incident since a seven-week war in the Palestinian enclave ended in August. Hours after the projectile struck harmlessly, there was no Israeli...

By Zaman staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl) - Many cases of hepatitis spread among Syrian refugees in Ersal , the number is not certain, as many case are still undiagnosed. Dr. Kasim Zin revealed that 170 case of Hepatitis...

Moderate rebels clashed with Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front in Idlib province of northwest Syria on Friday, a monitoring group said. The clashes, near a Syrian Revolutionary Front bastion in Deir Sinbel village, came days after Al-Nusra took over Front checkpoints, according to...

HAMA (Zaman Al Wasl)-   A week after seizing control of Morek town in the northern countryside of Hama province, Syrian regime forces are mobilizing troops to overrun the neighboring town of Kafr Zeita, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said.   Kafr Zeita, the stubborn...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Elaf, a-7-year-old Syrian baby, has head deformity because of cerebral hydrocele and a lumbar spinal meningeal lump. Her head has extra amount of fluid, which caused her head...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- 43 bodies of detainees tortured to death by Syrian security forces were delivered to their families in al-Qaryatayn town, 85 km southeast Homs city, activists said on Friday. Locals of the desert town said its first time...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-   12 Syrians have been detained for two months in a refugees’ detention centre in Malta without clear reasons or any attempt to sort their matters out. The...

(Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stressed the need for honesty in internal government discussions on Thursday as he declined comment on a two-page internal memo he wrote on Syria policy, described as critical by people familiar with its contents. The...