BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State beheaded seven men and three women in a northern Kurdish area of Syria, a human rights monitoring group said on Wednesday, part of what it described as a campaign to frighten residents resisting the militant group's advance. The...

MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces launched air strikes on Islamic State fighters who are besieging a Kurdish town near the Syrian border with Turkey on Wednesday, Kurdish sources in the town and a monitoring group said, a rare daylight coalition attack. A Reuters...

Damascus (AFP) - Twin car bomb explosions in the central Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday killed at least 18 people, mostly children, and wounded 40 others, state news agency SANA reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, reported the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels' latest advance in the strategic town of Harasta, 4 miles away from the capital center, has startled Syrian regime armed troops since they found their stubborn headquarters of air-forces intelligence being under constant heavy shelling....