Jihadist social media pages reported kidnapping of top Al Qaeda commander's wife in Syria. Sheikh Abdullah al-Mouheisni, the powerful commander in the State of Iraq and The Levant assured in his Facebook page that Hajji Baker’s wife had been...

Two car bombs exploded Monday afternoon on the Syrian side of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey. The border crossing is under control of the Islamic Front, activists accused the state of Iraq and The Levant of the car bombs as a response to the...

  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited Iran to participate in upcoming peace talks on Syria, a move that immediately angered the opposition. The invitation to this week's opening-day session of the so-called Geneva 2 came as he held a surprise news conference...

Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad are preparing to attack rebel towns in the countryside of Homs city, activists say. 7000 regular soldiers and 2000 militants (National Defence militia) backed with 20 tanks will break into rebel-held towns of al-Zara and al-Huson towns in...