At least 20 Islamist State (IS) group members were killed in the second failed jihadist bid in a month to take over an air base in eastern Syria, a monitoring group said Sunday. "The IS tried, starting late Saturday, to storm the air base. A total of 20 jihadists were killed...

The Netherlands will train Peshmerga forces in fight against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, the country’s foreign minister announced on Sunday. In a joint press conference with Kurdish regional administration’s prime minister Nechirvan Barzani in...

At least 990 Palestinian refugees have been killed throughout nearly four years of conflict in Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said on Sunday. The announcement came during a conference on Palestinian refugees' affairs at the Arab League's Cairo headquarters....

(Reuters) - Lebanon hopes France will deliver helicopters to its army faster than planned so it can fight jihadis encroaching from neighboring Syria, Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam said in an interview on Sunday. France and Lebanon signed a $3 billion Saudi-funded deal in...