As Syria descended further and further into a bloody civil war, Damascus-born clarinetist  Kinan Azmeh  found that he was unable to write new music. “Especially for the first year,” Azmeh, who lives in Brooklyn, said, “because there’s something much bigger happening than...

 A young German woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria was killed over the weekend in clashes with Islamic State fighters, Kurdish officials and a Turkey-based communist group said on Monday. The Kurdish forces, backed by U.S. air strikes and local rebel fighters,...

 The head of Syria 's Western-backed political opposition is trying to ally with opposition groups based in Syria to boost its legitimacy and help revive peace talks that center on a political transition in the country. Khaled Khoja, who became president of the National...

(Reuters) - Islamist militant Mohammed Emwazi, identified as 'Jihadi John,' was a member of a network in contact with one of the men convicted of trying to bomb the British capital's underground railway in 2005, according to the government. The man dubbed by British media "Jihadi John"...