BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters advanced deeper into the Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border on Friday, taking almost complete control of an area where the local Kurdish administration is based, a group monitoring the violence reported. "They have...

(Reuters) - Turkish officials on Friday angrily condemned a wave of unrest in which two police officers were gunned down and Kurds angry over a siege by Islamist militants on their ethnic kin in Syria clashed with security forces and radical Islamists. Intense fighting raged...

( 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...