(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters took three villages from the Islamic State in northern Aleppo province near the Turkish border, local reporter said on Saturday. The moderate rebels have seized control of al-Jakka, al-Kamaliya and Mrigel in the last 48 hours. Meanwhile, the rallies...

  Dozens of people were killed in a series of air strikes on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group and activists said, as Damascus and Moscow waged attacks on areas controlled by Islamic State. A cessation of hostilities in Syria took effect three...

 The Algerian gunman newly linked to the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris after being killed by police joined ISIS in 2014 and said he wanted to die as a suicide bomber, bypassing the choice to be a fighter. Previously unknown to authorities, Mohamed Belkaid was shot to death Tuesday in a raid...

Three Israelis and one Iranian were killed in Saturday's suicide bombing in a busy shopping district of Istanbul, Turkish media reported. The victims were named as Israelis Simha Siman Demri, 60, Yonathan Suher, 40, Avraham Goldman, 70, and Iranian national Ali Rıza Khalman, 31, the...