(AFP)- The long-running conflict with Israel claimed the lives of more Palestinian civilians in 2014 than any year since 1967, the United Nations said Thursday, in a damning report on the humanitarian situation. Meanwhile, rights group Amnesty...

Insurgents have seized a historic town in southern  Syria  from the government, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday, part of a rebel counter-attack to stop Damascus reclaiming the border zone near Israel and Jordan. A Syrian military source reported heavy fighting...

Syrian activists on Tuesday have accused fighters of Jund al-Aqsa militant group of killing three youths from the Ismaili minority who fled to the town of Sarmada in Idlib province escaping Syrian regime's conscription. Early Monday, civil defense crew of Sarmada town found...

 Islamic State fighters attacked a military airport in Syria's Homs province on Monday as they pushed on with an offensive against government strongholds towards the west, a monitoring group said. Skirmishes by Islamic State -- which is strongest in the northeast and east -- into the...