French police have identified the first of seven gunmen who killed at least 129 people in a wave of carnage claimed by ISIS, as international investigators stepped up their probes into Paris's worst ever attacks. French authorities Saturday named the first attacker as 29-year-old Omar Ismail...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S. led air strikes in Syria have inflicted "significant damage" to Islamic State's ability to fund itself, the Pentagon said on Friday. Recent strikes in an air operation dubbed "Tidal Wave II" have been concentrated on oil facilities in the Deir Ezzor region, which provide...

(Al Jazeera)-  In Syria, the besieged town of Douma, 10km northeast of Damascus, has been under intense regime and Russian shelling for the past few weeks. One resident, Osama Nasser, describes what it is like to live there: It usually begins in the morning, at around 8am, and lasts all...

(Reuters)- Syrian regime troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah Thursday took control of the key rebel-held town of Al-Hader, south of Aleppo city, a military source told AFP.  "Syrian troops and allied forces have full control of Al-Hader," the source said of the town, which is around 10...