BEIRUT (AP) — An international rights group said Thursday that Kurdish authorities ruling three enclaves in northeastern Syria have committed abuses, including arbitrary arrests of political opponents, and have failed to address abductions and unresolved killings in areas under...

(Reuters) - President   Barack Obama   said on Thursday the United States would send up to 300 military advisers to support Iraqi forces confronting an al Qaeda-splinter group attacking the country and was prepared to take targeted military action if necessary. But the...

(NOW)- Forty Hezbollah fighters were killed Thursday in an ambush in the Syrian flashpoint town of Rankous, near the Lebanese border. A Free Syrian Army member identifying himself as Abu Omar Shatout told NOW that the ambush was carried out in farmland on the outskirts of the town....

(Zaman Alwasl)- Aleppo’s Military Council has agreed on new leadership that includes all moderate fighting factions in the embattled province on Wednesday, sources said. Representatives of Hazm Movement, Mujahidin Army, Division 16, and other rebel...