Sunni rebels led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have taken control of an important oil refinery and have offered Iraqi troops safe passage if they give up their weapons and leave, according to Al Jazeera sources.  Sources in Salheddin province on Tuesday said...

  (Reporting by Cham Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A well informed source from the Joint Chief of Staff of Free Syrian Army , denied all accusations and rumors against the Army Staff, which have been circulated over the...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Militant Islamist groups in Syria are recruiting children as young as 15 and sending them into battle after promising them a free education, a Human Rights Watch report said on Monday. The report said the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which...

(Al Jazeera) -Various fighting factions and the Syrian government reached a cease-fire agreement in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, activists and state media said. If it holds, the agreement in the Yarmouk, the largest of nine Palestinian camps in Syria, could...