Australia is close to confirming the reported death in Iraq of two home-grown militants who shot to infamy last year after being photographed holding the severed heads of Syrian soldiers, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Tuesday. Australia issued arrest warrants for suspected Australian...

 Hermon Army fighters on Saturday have stormed Syrian army base in Quneitra countryside, destroying 3 tanks, activists said. The newly-formed rebel group that operates on the border of Golan Occupied Heights has attacked Liwa Tisein, or the 90th Brigade,in Kawm al-Wesah village, destroying...

Syria's best-known mosaic museum in the northern rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan has been seriously damaged in a regime barrel bomb attack, according to archaeological experts. The Association for the Protection of Syrian Archaeology said the museum "suffered serious damage caused by two...

A fistfight erupted on the sidelines of peace talks in Geneva on Thursday between supporters of different warring factions in Yemen, underlining the divisions that have thwarted United Nations efforts broker a truce in the near three-month conflict. Yemeni opponents of the Houthi forces that...