( Naharnet )- Al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front announced on Friday that a Lebanese soldier has defected and joined its ranks. The terrorist group made the announcement on twitter after it published the photo of the alleged soldier. TV and radio stations identified him as...

  The death toll has risen to 31 as a result of protest violence in Turkey amid anger over ISIL siege of Syria's Kobani town. Three more people have died in random fire in protests in Turkey's southeastern Gaziantep province. The protests were in support for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The barrage of U.S. cruise missiles last month aimed at an al-Qaida cell in northern Syria cell killed just one or two key militants, according to American intelligence officials who say the group of veteran fighters is still believed to be plotting attacks...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Writing by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-Activists accused many external forces of pressurizing rebels of “Failaq Homs”, in the Northern Countryside, to withdraw toward thr North of Syria, which caused a state of...