The Obama administration is moving to increase and accelerate the number of Syrian refugees who might be admitted into the United States by opening new screening outposts in Iraq and Lebanon, administration officials told Reuters on Friday. The move comes after President Barack Obama...

At a dusty checkpoint on the front line facing ISIL in northern Syria, a steady trickle of cars, vans and trucks passes by on their way from Raqqa, the extremist group’s main stronghold. The checkpoint near the town of Ain Issa is no more than an abandoned building beside a dirt track,...

(Reuters)- Representatives of four Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel groups fighting on the ground in Syria Thursday dismissed a report that FSA factions would meet with Russian officials next week in Abu Dhabi. The RIA news agency said a delegation from the FSA had agreed to meet with Russian...

SANLIURFA, Turkey (NBC News)- The double murder achieved its goal. It sent the message that, even here in the relative safety of Turkey, ISIS and its supporters can reach its critics. The bodies of 22-year-old Ibrahim Abdel Qader...