BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's al Qaeda offshoot Nusra said on Friday it killed a captive Lebanese soldier in retaliation for the arrest by Lebanese authorities of women identified as wives of Islamist militants. The soldier was one of more than...

(AP)- A Sunni militant commander in Syria who has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group has threatened to “retaliate” against Lebanese Shiites over the arrest of his wife and two children in Lebanon, according to a new militant posting. Abu Ali al-Shishani also says in a...

BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants launched an attack overnight on a major military air base in eastern Syria in what looked to be a push to eliminate the last significant government outpost in the extremist-dominated region, activists said Thursday. The airfield just...

BEIRUT: DNA samples of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were matched Wednesday with three children who are currently being held by Lebanese authorities over the suspicion of being related to the jihadi chief. According to a source in the investigation, DNA samples, which were...