9 Islamist groups have merged in new fighting bloc in Aleppo province, according to Zaman Alwasl source. The newly formed Al Mujahideen Army consisted of Division 19, Islamic Al Nour Movement, Istakem Kma Amart Gathering, Nor Al din Al Zinki Battalions,...

Syrian Regime's Deputy Chief Mufti gives Bashar al-Assad's army soldiers religious permission to rape women in order to take revenge on them and on rebel forces. Human rights groups report that thousands of women have been raped by Syrian army soldiers in the ongoing war,...

More than 73,000 people were killed in Syria in 2013, the bloodiest year yet in the brutal civil war that began in March 2011, an NGO said on Wednesday. The tally from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights came as renewed regime air strikes in the northern city of Aleppo killed at...

Violence in Iraq surged in 2013 to its worst level in five years, fuelled by widespread discontent among the Sunni Arab minority and Syria's civil war, figures released Wednesday showed. Bombs tore through markets, cafes, football fields and mosques, militants assaulted prisons, police...