A unit of Russian security forces is training to fight Islamist militants battling in Syria  on fears they may migrate from the Middle East conflict to join an insurgency in the North Caucasus, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader said. The Kremlin is worried that Russian-born...

Syria's Islamic Front in a statement announced withdrawing from the Free Syrian Army’s Joint Chiefs of Staff over accusations to the Syrian Military Council (SMC) of affiliation to a political body in reference to the National Council. The statement came hours after...

Young Americans are unhappy with virtually every major thing President Barack Obama has done since he was re-elected, but they would still vote for him today, according to the results of a Harvard University survey released on Wednesday. The national poll by Harvard's Institute of...

Rocket fire against government-held areas of Syria's main northern city of Aleppo killed at least 18 people on Wednesday, a monitoring group said. Among the dead were "five regime troops, including an officer," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attack on the Furqan...