The United States sees value in getting to know Islamist militias in Syria, in order to better understand their intentions in the civil war there and their possible links with al Qaeda, the top U.S. military officer said on Wednesday. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint...

  Jihadists in northern Syria have kidnapped more than 50 Kurds in the past three days, in the second such case of mass hostage-taking since July, a monitoring group said Thursday.   The kidnappings come months into major battles for control of several...

Schools principals of Syrian refugee camps in rebel-held areas demanded the education commission in the National Coalition to provide  curriculum . ''However, this request was ignored by the coalition,’’ Abdul Razzaq (preferred not to mention his last name), t eaching...

Hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for nearly two million accounts at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and others, according to a report released this week. The massive data breach was a result of keylogging software maliciously installed on an untold number of computers...