At least 5 ISIS fighters and 4 rebels have been killed late on Monday after clashes in Marea town in the northern countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said. Marea is the hometown of the late prominent rebel commander, Abdulkader Saleh, who was killed in November 2013,...

 A pregnant 15-year-old Swedish girl is being held by the Islamic State group in Syria after running away from her foster home with her boyfriend to join Al-Qaeda, Swedish media reported Monday. The Swedish foreign ministry remained tight-lipped about the case, confirming only minimal...

Dozens of Syrians staged a rare protest in the coastal city of Latakia, bastion of President Bashar al-Assad, calling for the punishment of a member of his family they accuse of killing an army officer over a traffic dispute, monitors said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

Two attackers opened fire on the U.S. consulate building in Istanbul on Monday while 10 people were injured in a car bombing at a police station overnight, weeks after Turkey launched what it described as a "synchronized war on terror". Police armed with automatic rifles cordoned off...