(The Guardian)- Lindsey Snell knew she was being hunted. A Syrian contact had told her that militants had already arrested her fixer Abdullah, but they were coming for her next. This was Jabhat al-Nusra territory. No armed group, certainly not the smaller and more moderate one she was with,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Family of the former Islamic State’s Emir of al-Hajar al-Aswad, a southern suburb of Damascus, has left with his family to Raqqa city, the de facto ISIS capital,  sources said. The family of Abu Sayyah Frrameh with 30 women from his relatives have left al-Hajar al-Aswad...

There weren’t any bombs today, or the day before. That’s good, because it means you can leave your apartment, see your friends, try to pretend life is normal. Still, you don’t know when the attacks will resume or how much worse they’ll be when they do. The war here has been going on...

(CNN)- ISIS is sending "suicide squads" from Syria to its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul, witnesses have told CNN, as tens of thousands of troops close in on the key city to take it from the militant group's control. Witnesses said most of hundreds of new arrivals had streamed into Mosul from the...