KUCUK KENDIRCILER, Turkey (AP) — The number of refugees seeking shelter in Turkey from the Islamic State group's advance across northern Syria has hit 100,000 in less than a week, an official said Sunday. The head of Turkey's disaster management agency, Fuat Oktay, said the...

Writing to Zaman English by Dani Murad (Zaman al-Wasl)- After the devastating explosion in North-eastern Syria last week, which killed a dozen of the most important senior figures in the armed opposition, a Syrian rebel group Ahrar al Sham Movement has...

  GOLAN HEIGHTS, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Dozens of Fijian U.N. peacekeepers, released by al Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front in Syria, arrived in Israeli-held territory on the Golan Heights on Thursday, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. "We opened the border and they...

(IBTimes- Zaid al-Fares)- Like James Foley before him, Steven Sotloff has become the subject of global attention following his tragic beheading at the hands of Islamic State (formerly Isis) militants. The world has united, with total justification, to decry this pointless and...