Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan described the leaking on YouTube on Thursday of a recording of top security officials discussing possible military operations in Syria as "villainous" and the government blocked access to the video-sharing site. The anonymous...

A video released on YouTube shows the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front preparing to execute two Saudi fighters in Syria. According to the unidentified executioner heard speaking in the video, the men were accused of “betraying” the jihadists by joining the Islamic State of Iraq and...

Turned away three times since fleeing the bombardment of Syria's second city Aleppo in January, mother of eight Faten Darwish has given up on getting her family into a refugee camp in southeast Turkey. Instead, the 33-year old lives with her husband and children in a dingy...

Syria has sent 49 percent of the raw materials used for its poison gas and nerve agent programme abroad for destruction, according to the chemical weapons watchdog overseeing the removal of the country's stockpiles. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said...