Some 17,136 Syrian children have died due to the continuation of the crisis in the country for more than three and a half years, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a report yesterday. Published at the start of the new academic year in the country, the SNHR said the...

(Reuters) - As President Barack Obama knits together an international coalition to take its campaign against Islamic State from Iraq into Syria , fighters like Ammar al-Wawi could make the difference. If he had the chance, he says. He fears that restrictions on the...

(Indo Asian News Service)- At least 17 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in airstrikes launched by the Syrian army in the north-eastern part of the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced. In a communique Sunday, the non-governmental organisation revealed...

"All bases are covered" in a multinational coalition effort against the Islamic State, top US diplomat John Kerry says, as Washington harnesses diplomatic and public support to smash the militants. Secretary of State Kerry told CBS's Face the Nation, in an interview aired...