(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Almost 1000 days passed on the big battle of Daraya which was an exceptional in resistance and fighting against uncountable attacks and attempts of the Syrian regime and its militias to invade the poor Sunni community on the south-west outskirts of the capital town....

A mortar round fired by Islamic State militants caused a major blaze at a Syrian government headquarters building in the northeastern city of Hasaka and firefighters had put it out, state television said on Friday. The ultra hardline jihadists hit a civilian ID and passport office...

Iraqi Shi'ite militia fighters are tightening a noose around the Islamic State-held city of Falluja west of Baghdad as the first stage of a counter-offensive in the Sunni province of Anbar, likely to determine the course of the conflict in coming months. Islamic State seized...

Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said on Friday regional states were not doing enough to stop the flow of militants into Iraq, and warned that the fighters would return one day to threaten their home countries. Islamic State has attracted Sunni Muslim...