Iraqi forces backed by Sunni tribes advanced into the town of Dhuluiyah north of Baghdad on Sunday in a new attempt to push out Islamic State group jihadists, officials said. In October, Iraqi forces retook most of Dhuluiyah from IS, but the jihadists later launched a...

  DAMASCUS, (AP)— Three Syrian diplomats left Damascus for Kuwait Monday where they will reopen their country's embassy in the Persian Gulf nation, a Syrian official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, told The Associated...

(Al Jazeera- Agencies)- The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has killed 120 of its own members, most of them foreign fighters trying to return home, during the past six months, a Syrian monitoring group has said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Sunday that Syria's opposition had approved a Russian proposal for holding a meeting in Moscow. "The opposition had not objected to going to Russia [for the meeting]," Shoukry said. He said he had not...