A member of a new Syrian force trained by the U.S. military was believed to have been killed in clashes last week with al Qaeda's Syria wing, in what would be the fledgling force's first battlefield casualty, U.S. officials said on Monday. The U.S. officials, who spoke to...

Syria's western-backed political opposition, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, reelected Khaled Khoja for a second term as its president, the body said in a statement. The Coalition, accused of slipping into virtual irrelevance on the battlefield as Islamist...

Iran's Press Supervisory Board has suspended a hardline newspaper and cautioned two other outlets for criticizing last month's nuclear deal with world powers -- a rare move for a body more used to upholding social conservatism. The board suspended "9 Dey", a weekly newspaper that accused...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent Saudi Jihadist, who leads the offensive on Bashar al-Assad's ancestral homeland in the coastal province of Latakia, says the rocket campaign on Qardaha town to be continued as regime army extends its brutal attack on border city with Lebanon. Abdullah al-Muhaysini,...