Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq's slide into renewed deadly chaos a year and a half after U.S. troops pulled out. Iraqi border posts along the Syrian frontier are coming under attack, and Syrian...

    The activists and civil society in Aleppo have organized a protest   in front of Sharia Council headquarter, demanding justice for a 14-year-old boy, allegedly by al-Qaeda-linked fighters who accused him of blasphemy.. In response to the increasing condemns,...

  The German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, has warned France and Britain of the consequences of arming the Syrian opposition, and stressed that there were terrorists in Syria that target Israel. In an interview with German newspaper 'Welt am Sonntag' published on Sunday,...

Syrian rebels converged Monday on a military airport in Aleppo, where troops massed for a threatened assault, as the United States said it was considering "all possible options" to help the opposition. Buoyed by victory in the strategic town of Qusayr on the border with Lebanon, President...