(Reuters) - Kuwait briefly detained a prominent Sunni Muslim cleric less than two weeks after the United States included him on a sanctions list on suspicion he was funneling money to militants in Iraq and Syria , his lawyer said on Monday. Shafi al-Ajmi, who was detained...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- Radical Islamic State group on Sunday have beheaded top Syrian army defectors in al-Tabqa near Raqqa. General Mahmoud Shlash, 55, former head of Southern region in Syrian Army were beheaded by IS fighters, activists said....

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad hammered the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa with more than two dozen air strikes on Sunday, targeting areas controlled by the Islamic State militant group, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human...

( New York Post )-  Robin Williams has inspired Syrian rebels fighting both the Assad government and the Islamic extremists establishing a repressive religious regime across a wide swath of Syria and Iraq. A photograph emerged Saturday showing a group in Kafranbel,...