A helicopter crash in the restive Sinai Peninsula killed five Egyptian soldiers on Saturday, medics said. The military confirmed a helicopter had crashed and said a search was under way for its crew. It was not immediately clear how the aircraft came down, in an area used as a hub...

Here's a list of key fighting groups inside Syria: — SYRIAN GOVERNMENT — Despite major defections early in the conflict and the loss of significant territory to rebels, the Syrian military remains a potent force against an outgunned opposition. President Bashar Assad's inner circle...

  Fierce clashes are taking place in northern Aleppo between rebels and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), local source say to Zaman Alwasl. ISIL has seized village of Handarat near Azaz, sources said. Since 72 hours Islamist rebels have engaed in violent...

Syria's Aleppo international airport, closed for a year because of fighting, reopened Wednesday with the landing of a civilian aircraft, state media reported. "A first airplane landed at Aleppo's international airport, after the Syrian army secured the outskirts," state...