ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Political Commission of Syrian National Coalition holds two-day meeting to discuss the foreign affairs agenda and to appoint new representatives in Qatar, Turkey and Britain, source said. Khaled Khoja, the newly-elected...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign fighters are streaming into Syria and Iraq in unprecedented numbers to join the Islamic State or other extremist groups, including at least 3,400 from Western nations among 20,000 from around the world, U.S. intelligence officials say in an updated estimate...

BEIRUT (AFP) -  Syrian activists on Tuesday accused Jaysh al-Islam (Islam Army), a powerful Islamist group near Damascus, of detaining a group of their colleagues, in what they said was the latest in a string of abuses. "An armed group...

(Reuters) - U.S. aid worker Kayla Mueller, held hostage by Islamic State militants for 18 months, is dead, her family said on Tuesday, but the circumstances were unclear and President Barack Obama vowed to hunt down the culprits. Mueller's family received an email and...