Kurdish-led forces advanced on Monday deep into territory in Syria held by Islamic State, showing new momentum after they unexpectedly swiftly seized a border crossing from the jihadists last week. The Kurds, aided by U.S.-led air strikes and smaller Syrian rebel groups, have pushed to within 7...

Standing guard at his frontline post, Libyan soldier Mohammed Abu Shager can see where Islamic State militants are holed up with their heavy weaponry less than a kilometer away. The militants have effectively taken over former dictator Muammar Gaddafi's home city of Sirte as...

(By Mamoon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Pro-Syrian regime people in Homs started moving their dead relatives’ remains from the martyrs’ graveyard to their home villages.  Sources mentioned that families refused to bury their killed sons in Fardous graveyard, the one...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syrian regime has let some bread to enter the embattled town of Moadamyeh al-Sham near Damascus after almost two months of complete siege caused death of 4 kids and an elderly.  “The regime allowed families only to have bread, each family...