A Syrian government minister said Sunday that foreign fighters who have come to the country to wage jihad are responsible for the outbreak of polio in the rebel-controlled north. Last week, the United Nations health agency confirmed 10 polio cases in northeast Syria, the first confirmed...

7 militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have been killed after attacking one of their barricades by Free Syrian Army in Aleppo countryside, a day after the threat of Badr brigade commander to revenge from the ISIL over attacking his checkpoints and...

Rebel groups in Aleppo countryside pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda-lined group, sources said. 6 rebel battalions and Shariah court of Hayyan village in Aleppo countryside have pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda-lined group, Jabhat al-Nusra. The rebel groups...