A Syrian Kurdish militia on Wednesday recaptured a town that had been stormed by Islamic State fighters earlier this week north of the jihadist group's base of operations in Raqqa city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Islamic State fighters had stormed the town...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad signed a law ratifying a $1 billion credit line from top regional ally Iran, Syria's state news agency SANA said on Wednesday, funds which will help ease economic strains from the costly war. The agreement was between two state-owned banks, the...

Purported supporters of the hardline Islamic State group hacked the website of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog on Wednesday and threatened its Syrian director who has documented abuses on all sides of Syria's war. The Britain-based Observatory, which tracks the...

At least 45 Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group militants have died after eating a poisoned iftar meal, British newspaper the Daily Mail reported, It is thought that a group of 145 ISIS militants had sat together to break their fast, but only 100 survived the meal, the report added....