(Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday that using only military means to fight the threat of Islamic State in Syria could radicalize more Sunni armed groups and spark greater violence. "Our long-term strategic objective in Syria remains a...

(Reuters) - The Syrian air force carried out more than 200 air strikes around the country in the past 36 hours, a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday, a rapid increase in government raids as U.S.-led forces bomb Islamist insurgents elsewhere. The intensified strikes by...

(Reuters) - A man and a woman have been stoned to death for adultery in separate executions in jihadist-controlled areas of Syria , a monitoring group reported on Tuesday. The man was executed in Idlib province in an area controlled by Islamist groups including the Nusra Front,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 people, including 7 children and 2 women, have been killed by Syrian regime air strikes on border towns near the Jordanian borders, monitoring group said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said more than 25 people has been...

  (Business Insider)- Dressed in matching combat fatigues with days' worth of beard, the man known as Sipan barely stands out from the crowd of Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters. But unlike his fellow fighters, Sipan is an American who has taken up the cause against ISIS not for survival,...

Mingling with a group of fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG near the front line with Islamic State (IS) in north-east Syria, the one they call Sipan, with a stubbly beard and dressed in the same combat fatigues, does not look like the odd one out. But he is. When he...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of bombs targeting restaurants across Baghdad killed at least 21 people on Tuesday, police and medics said. The Iraqi capital has witnessed a surge in bombings over the past month, most claimed by Islamic State militants who have...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union imposed sanctions on Tuesday on 12 Syrian government ministers, two senior military figures and a United Arab Emirates company it accused of helping supply oil to Syria. The moves were part of a gradual tightening of EU...

Kurdish fighters in the battleground Syrian town of Kobane weathered an onslaught by Islamic State group militants on Tuesday as they awaited promised reinforcements. The Kurdish militia faced a fierce attack by IS fighters, including suicide bombers, late on Monday, that appeared...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Key rebel group Soqour al-Sham has mourned senior commander killed on Monday in the ongoing clashes in Hama province, activists said. The general commander, Abu Issa al-Sheikh, in statement posted online, mourned Raddad Khallouf, the field...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 fighters of Nusra Front have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, defecting al-Qaeda wing in Syria to fight US- led coalition with the mother group, monitoring body said on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human...

SURUC, Turkey (AP) — Turkey said it was helping Iraqi Kurdish fighters cross into Syria to support their brethren fighting Islamic State militants in a key border town, although activists inside embattled Kobani said no forces had arrived by Monday evening, raising questions about...

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union urged Turkey on Monday to open its border to allow supplies to get through to residents of the Syrian border town of Kobani that is being besieged by Islamic State insurgents. EU governments also tightened sanctions on the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Former Saudi officer, who joined the Islamic State of iraq and Syria group, has been killed on Monday by Kurdish militants in the border city of Kobani, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. Former Major in the Saudi Interior ministry,...

(Zaman Al Wasl) – Spokesman of Al Ummah Army, rebel group based in Douma city, refused to accuse any opposition faction of targeting   his commander by a blast on Sunday, saying well-trained assassins who are carrying out...

Reporting by MaMoun Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s forces has started unprecedented campaign to mandatorily recruit most males over 18 years old in the military services, even if they have official documents to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air forces have carried out 46 raids at least across most of Syrian cities on Monday, killing more than 7 people as armed troops pressing advance in Aleppo and Idlib, monitoring groups said. The Syrian Network for Human...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it had air-dropped arms to Syrian rebels fighting Islamic State militants near Kobani on Sunday in what appeared to be the Pentagon's first public acknowledgment it has delivered lethal aid to the rebels. The U.S. Central Command...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A large quantity of ammunition and weapons has reached the Syrian town of Kobani, Polat Can, a spokesman for Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants there, said on his Twitter feed on Monday. The U.S. Central Command said earlier U.S....

(AFP)- The stone house has just two rooms, but is now home to five Syrian families who fled the besieged town of Kobane to the relative safety of Turkey just a few kilometres away. The Turkish village of Karaca is just 50 metres from the border. But for the families taking...