BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida militants and Syrian rebels launched an attack against two predominantly Shiite Muslim villages in northern Syria that have been under siege for some 18 months, activists and a monitoring group said Sunday. The Local Coordination Committees and the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army founder, Riad al-Asaad, refused to meet former head of Syria's main political opposition who wanted to brief rebels by the outcomes of his recent visit to Russia, sources said. Moaz al-Khatib, the former head...

(Al Jazeera)- Heavy fighting has been reported in a suburb of Damascus as government forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad try to wrest the area from control of rebel fighters. The suburb of Jobar on Saturday was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting the rebels...

Islamic State has consolidated its grip on oil supplies in Iraq and now presides over a sophisticated smuggling empire with illegal exports going to Turkey , Jordan and Iran, according to smugglers and Iraqi officials. Six months after it grabbed vast swaths of territory, the...