The United States and its allies conducted 31 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday. The attacks included 12 against fighting units and an Islamic State supply cache in Syria and 19 in Iraq.

Three serving or former Russian soldiers have been geolocated by photographs in Syria, including locations near Hama, Aleppo and Homs, Russian bloggers said on Sunday, suggesting the Kremlin's operation stretches well beyond its air campaign. Russia first launched air strikes to support...

Afghan refugees are going to fight for Iran in Syria on the offer of being paid a monthly salary and being granted permanent residency   (Middle East Eye)- Iran has recruited thousands of Afghan refugees living in the Islamic Republic to go and fight a religious war in Syria to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Nusra Front has expelled al Bayyadha Battalion, a rebel group of 80 members, from northern Homs province because the latter had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, the Qaeda's Syria wing said in statement. Nusra fighters seized this week the checkpoints of al...