BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy fighting broke out Sunday between an extremist group and Kurdish gunmen in northern Syria, activists said, adding that jihadis have captured a dozen fighters. Kurdish fighters and jihadis have been fighting each other since last year and clashes between the...

(AFP)- A Syrian rebel commander was shot dead in Amman in an apparent revenge killing by family members, Jordanian police said Sunday as the opposition blamed the Damascus regime for his death. Maher Rahhal, who headed the Liwa al-Mujahideen Brigade, one of the groups fighting...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Stories of Martyrs died under torture continue in Syria after more than three years of century’s disaster, most of them were not handed to their parents to bury them in dignity. Moreover, many painful stories are told about...

Jordan, where the US Central Intelligence Agency has been covertly training Syrian rebels for more than a year, is reluctant to host an expanded rebel instruction programme, US officials say. Jordan's reticence, confirmed by four US officials, is a potentially serious setback...