The Turkish government has sent 634 vehicles of humanitarian aid to the Syrian town of Kobani since September 19, the prime ministrery said Friday. "The total amount of aid, including food, medicine, tents, clothes and cleaning supplies delivered to...

(Anadolu News Agency)- The Syrian National Coalition, or the SNC, will join the international coalition to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or the ISIL, in Syria only if the Free Syrian Army is armed, the head of the coalition said Friday. In a speech at the...

LEZIGNAN-CORBIERES, France (AP) — On the day she left for Syria, Sahra strode along the train platform with two bulky schoolbags slung over her shoulder. In a grainy image caught on security camera, the French teen tucks her hair into a headscarf. Just two months earlier and a...

The head of the main Kurdish political party in Syria on Friday called on Turkey to allow its territory to be used for passing weapons to Kurdish fighters defending the key Syrian town of Kobane. Salih Muslim, the leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Agence...

Beirut, Oct 10 (IANS/EFE) At least 18 people, including four children, were killed Friday after Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shelled an area in the south of the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported. The victims, including a married...

HAMA (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have killed more than 30 troops of regime army and its loyal militias of National Defence Units and Lebanese Hezbollah movement in the northern countryside of Hama province, activists and opposition media reported on...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters advanced deeper into the Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border on Friday, taking almost complete control of an area where the local Kurdish administration is based, a group monitoring the violence reported. "They have...

(Reuters) - Turkish officials on Friday angrily condemned a wave of unrest in which two police officers were gunned down and Kurds angry over a siege by Islamist militants on their ethnic kin in Syria clashed with security forces and radical Islamists. Intense fighting raged...

( Naharnet )- Al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front announced on Friday that a Lebanese soldier has defected and joined its ranks. The terrorist group made the announcement on twitter after it published the photo of the alleged soldier. TV and radio stations identified him as...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Writing by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-Activists accused many external forces of pressurizing rebels of “Failaq Homs”, in the Northern Countryside, to withdraw toward thr North of Syria, which caused a state of confusion...

(Zaman Al Wasl-SOHR)- Fighters of Ahrar al-Sham Movement have killed 14 regime army troops in Aleppo province, pressing advances as they took control of 5 villages in northern countryside, monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported...

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(AFP)- At least eight people, among them three children, were killed in Syrian government shelling of the last rebel-held district of Homs city on Wednesday, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the deaths in the Waar neighbourhood, the only part of...

(Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes on Wednesday pushed Islamic State fighters back to the edges of the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani, which they had appeared set to seize after a three-week assault, Kurdish officials in the town said. The town has become the focus of...

IRBIL, Iraq (McClatchy) — A former French intelligence officer who defected to al Qaida was among the targets of the first wave of U.S. air strikes in Syria last month, according to people familiar with the defector’s movements and...

(AFP)- A Franciscan priest and 20 other Christians have been seized by the Nusra Front in a village in northwestern Syria, the Franciscan mission to the Holy Land said Tuesday. "On the night of October 5th, Father Hanna Jallouf of the Custody of the Holy Land, parish...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria has declared four chemical weapons facilities it hadn't mentioned before, a special representative of the U.N. secretary-general told the Security Council on Tuesday. The news heightened concerns that the Syrian government hasn't been fully open about...

(AFP)- The international community should immediately act to defend the key Syrian border town of Kobane, on the verge of falling to the jihadist Islamic State group, the UN's peace envoy to Syria said on Tuesday. "The world, all of us, will regret deeply if ISIS (Islamic State)...

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(Reuters) - Turkey's president said Kobani was "about to fall" after Islamic State fighters advanced into the south west of the Syrian Kurdish town, pressing home a three-week assault has cost a reported 400 lives. The prospect that the town on the Turkish border could be...