An Al-Qaeda surge and Sunni-Shiite tumult spanning Iraq and Syria are testing eroded US influence and the logic of a foreign policy built on antipathy to Middle East entanglements. The return of jihadists to cities like Fallujah and Ramadi, fabled battlefields for US soldiers, has left...

Jihadists have made advances on rebel fighters in the battle for Raqa, in northern Syria, but are on the back foot in parts of Aleppo and Idlib, activists said Friday. "In Idlib and Aleppo provinces, the (rebel) Free Syrian Army is advancing, but in Raqa the Islamic State of Iraq and...

More gains have been achieved in the western countryside of Aleppo by rebels against the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL), source In Brigade 9 told Zaman Alwasl. Mujahedeen Army seized the big city of Manbij and the villages of Kafr Aleppo, Sheikh Ali and kafr...

Rebels of Al Mujahedeen Army, who took control of Al Dana, last Islamic Emirate of Al Qaeda State ‘Iraq and The Levant’ in Idlib Province, had freed dozens of hostages and abductees, according to Zaman Alwasl sources.     ‘The Black Room’ is a horrific...