More than 23 civilians were killed by heavy insurgent shelling on government-controlled areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo, including near a mosque where children were taking religious lessons, Reuters reported Monday. State-run media said heavy shelling from Aleppo districts under the control...

 Number of young men of Syria's Druze minority, who joined regime army to figh rebels south Syria, have quitted conscription saying regime has breached a promise to not get them involved in fight out of Sweida province, their historic stronghold, activists said Sunday. Local activists also...

Crawling under barbed wire and leaping over burning tires, dozens of bare-chested young fighters train in a barren part of central Yemen, preparing to head to the frontlines of their country's worsening conflict. Less than 100 miles (150 km) away in Aden, former army officers are readying a...

Libya's recognized government said on Sunday that Algerian veteran militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a major figure in North African and Sahel Islamist insurgencies, has been killed in a U.S. air strike inside Libya. Earlier, the U.S. Department of Defense said the U.S. military conducted a counter...