: ISIS' far-flung enemies in Syria and Iraq pressed ahead on Wednesday with major advances on multiple fronts that have put some of the greatest pressure on the ultra-hardline Islamists since they declared their caliphate two years ago. A spokesman for a U.S.-backed alliance in northern Syria...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of Military Intelligence Branch in Idlib province asked General Nufal al-Hussein in September 2011 to form a Free Syrian Army (FSA) brigade in Jabal al-Zaweyeh in Idlib countryside, according to Marwan Mekhbat. Mekhbat said General Nufal told him he will be the leader of...

Reporting by Ahmed Khalil; Translation by Rana Abdul) (Zaman Al Wasl)- The absence of young men has become of the characteristics of Syrian society in the last period, as most of the youths and men are absent between those detained and those missing or those who have disappeared under...

 Ministers and members of parliament belonging to Lebanon's Hezbollah could be sanctioned under a new U.S. law targeting the group's finances, a U.S. Treasury official said on Friday. The U.S. Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act (HIFPA) passed in December threatens sanctions...