AMMAN, Sept 13 (Reuters) - When the U.S. military targeted Islamic State commander Maher al-Agal with a drone strike in northern Syria in July, there was little chance it would miss. The reason? Revenge. With Islamic State's last battle-hardened forces holed up in remote areas, the United...

Harrowing new photographs of Syrian detainees being tortured in Aleppo Central Prison were released on Sunday by a defecting military photographer. The photos were exclusively obtained by the Syrian news daily, Zaman Al-Wasl, where gruesome pictures showed the abuse that prisoners were...

A new set of leaks reveals some of the darkest chapters during the Syrian civil war, with a whistleblower providing evidence of up to 800 civilian deaths (MEE - Elis Gjevori) A military defector from the government has revealed the horrors inflicted on captives at one of the most notorious...

U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters arrested dozens of Islamic State militants and rescued four women who were being held chained in tunnels at the massive al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria that houses IS families, the U.S. military said Wednesday. The operation, which has gone on for two...