An unknown number of casualties have been reported after a car bomb exploded at a Hezbollah position near the town of Labweh in eastern Lebanon at dawn on Tuesday. "A blast went off at around 4:00 am (0200 GMT) ... causing deaths and injuries," a security source told Agence...

  The al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria have started working with crime syndicates and racketeering thugs for kidnappings, arms-smuggling, and widespread looting. Syria’s insurgent militias are becoming ever more enmeshed with organized crime, blurring the line...

A unit of Russian security forces is training to fight Islamist militants battling in Syria  on fears they may migrate from the Middle East conflict to join an insurgency in the North Caucasus, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader said. The Kremlin is worried that Russian-born...

The revolutionary council in Aleppo's Salah al-Din  has completed restoration of the neighborhood's mosque, which was badly affected by shelling of the Assad forces. Many holes happened in the ceiling, walls, sanctuary and the stand, only the outside square was the only...