(Reuters) - Islamic State has executed a Syrian it accused of belonging to a militant cell that ambushed its fighters and blew up its vehicles in the town of al-Mayadin near the border with Iraq , a monitoring group that tracks the conflict said on Thursday. Islamic State...

(Reuters) - A 12-year-old boy was shot dead in Cizre in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, the sixth person to be killed in the largely Kurdish town in the last three weeks, security sources said. Local witnesses said police teams were traveling through the area at the time he was...

BEIRUT (The Daily Star)-  Lebanon’s cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Tammam Salam got underway Thursday with a regular agenda, but Hezbollah's ministers were expected to raise the issue of entry permits for Syrians from outside the schedule, ministerial sources told...

 (Anadolu Agency)- The Obama administration’s Syrian envoy discussed the planned train and equip mission for Syrian rebels during recent meetings in Istanbul, Central Command said Wednesday. Special Envoy for Syria Daniel Rubinstein met with Syrian opposition...