PARIS (AP) — France's president held an emergency meeting Thursday to discuss possible military options for Iraq and Syria, after recent advances by Islamic extremist fighters that have destabilized the region. President Francois Hollande said in a statement afterward that...

(NOW)- Forty Hezbollah fighters were killed Thursday in an ambush in the Syrian flashpoint town of Rankous, near the Lebanese border. A Free Syrian Army member identifying himself as Abu Omar Shatout told NOW that the ambush was carried out in farmland on the outskirts of the town....

(Zaman Alwasl)- Aleppo’s Military Council has agreed on new leadership that includes all moderate fighting factions in the embattled province on Wednesday, sources said. Representatives of Hazm Movement, Mujahidin Army, Division 16, and other rebel...

Two men have been executed over spy charges in Daraya, a south-west outskirt of Syrian capital, rebel statement says. The statement, which issued by Daraya rebel authority, said Shariah Law (the Islamic Law) has been implemented on two spies of...