One Syrian security official called it the "Starvation Until Submission Campaign", blocking food and medicine from entering and people from leaving besieged areas of  Syria . Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have used partial sieges to root out rebel forces from...

  Israeli warplanes struck a military base near the Syrian city of Latakia on Thursday, an Obama administration official confirmed to CNN. An explosion at a missile storage site in the area was widely reported in the Israeli press, but an attack has not been confirmed by...

Actor George Clooney has reportedly set his eyes on the Middle East, and it isn’t for his next film. The mystery woman Clooney was spotted having dinner with last week at Berners Tavern in London has been revealed as Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin. Alamuddin, sporting...

Foreign jihadists - including Britons - are flooding into Syria to join al-Qaeda from safe houses in Turkey Hundreds of al-Qaeda recruits are being kept in safe houses in southern Turkey, before being smuggled over the border to wage “jihad” in Syria, The Daily...