The leader of al-Qaeda has ordered the re-organization of jihadist efforts in Syria and Iraq by abolishing the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) and giving the Nusra Front sole responsibility for activities in war-torn Syria.   In an audio tape...

  7 Rebel groups announced in video statement the establishment of a command room to launch the battle of al Badiya (Desert) in north Syria. The main goal according to the fighting groups is to cut the logistic supplies of Bashar al-Assad. More than 120,000...

  Troops backed by Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters and other pro-regime militiamen on Thursday retook Sbeineh, a major rebel enclave south of Damascus, a monitoring group and state television said.   "Sbeineh was one of the most important...

  Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria has adopted the car bomb which killed at least eight security personnel on Wednesday in an attack on a military intelligence building in the southern Syrian city of Suweida, which has been largely peaceful during the Syrian civil war....