(The Financial Times)- ISIS may be claiming to wage a holy war for Islam but the self-declared caliphate is as vulnerable to the region's deep-seated corruption as the secular Iraqi and Syrian regimes it displaced. Evidence from its former...

Lebanon's Hezbollah group on Monday said it would retaliate for the killing of prominent militant Samir Qantar in an Israeli air strike in Syria, after giving him an elaborate funeral in Beirut of the kind reserved for its top commanders. Thousands of people chanted "death to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 people killed in Idlib, Aleppo and Damascus provinces as Russia intensifies its devastating aerial campaign on rebel-held areas across Syria for nearly three months. The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported Monday the death of 9 civilians, including 3 women and...

Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannons in Istanbul on Sunday to disperse hundreds of protesters calling for an end to curfews in the southeast, where the military has ramped up operations against Kurdish militants. Some of the protesters threw firebombs at security forces, who...