(Anadolu News Agency)- The Syrian National Coalition, or the SNC, will join the international coalition to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or the ISIL, in Syria only if the Free Syrian Army is armed, the head of the coalition said Friday. In a speech at the...

The head of the main Kurdish political party in Syria on Friday called on Turkey to allow its territory to be used for passing weapons to Kurdish fighters defending the key Syrian town of Kobane. Salih Muslim, the leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Agence...

Beirut, Oct 10 (IANS/EFE) At least 18 people, including four children, were killed Friday after Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shelled an area in the south of the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported. The victims, including a married...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters advanced deeper into the Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border on Friday, taking almost complete control of an area where the local Kurdish administration is based, a group monitoring the violence reported. "They have...