Seven leading Islamist rebel groups in Syria say they are joining forces. A statement posted online said Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam, Suqour al-Sham, Liwa al-Tawhid, Liwa al-Haqq, Ansar al-Sham and the Kurdish Islamic Front had agreed to a "gradual merger". It said the new...

Militants of so-called Nationalism Guards have joined the Syrian conflict according to pro-Assad's social media pages. ‘Nasser News’ facebook page with more than 136 thousand subscribers revealed about "the first Egyptian martyr who passed away in the defence battle for...

Pope Francis on Thursday said the Catholic Church will not accept a Middle East without Christians, who often find themselves forced to flee areas of conflict and unrest in the region. "We will not resign ourselves to imagining a Middle East without Christians," he said after meeting...

Al-Qaeda extremists  chops down 150-year-old tree in Syria because people would go to it for blessings. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has chopped down a long-lived tree in Otmeh border area near Turkey over people belief its  blessed which is a...