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Paris investigates French assets of Assad's uncle

    French authorities opened a preliminary probe Monday into the assets of Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Activist groups allege the elder Assad acquired vast wealth in France through corruption and embezzlement ....

The Sex Jihad That Never Happened

Stories of women entering Syria on a “Sex Jihad” have taken the media by storm. But are any of them actually true?  Leila, 23, still blushes when she talks about her first kiss. Now heavily pregnant with her first child, she says she didn’t even hold hands with a boy until she...

Syrian al-Qaeda criticizes Western-backed rebels

 An al-Qaeda spokesman is accusing Western-backed rebels fighting to topple the Syrian government of “stealing” credit for battlefield victories from his group. Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, a spokesman for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, says commanders of the...