Secretary of State John Kerry is seeking to repair frayed ties with Saudi Arabia over the Syrian conflict and Iran, after making his first visit to Egypt since the army ousted president Mohamed Morsi. The top US diplomat landed in Riyadh late Sunday on the second stop of an 11-day trip...

7 militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant  have been killed   after attacking one of their barricades by Free Syrian Army in Aleppo countryside, a day after the threat of Badr brigade commander to revenge from the ISIL over attacking his checkpoints and...

  Rebel groups in Aleppo countryside pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda-lined group, sources said. 6 rebel battalions and Shariah court of Hayyan village in Aleppo countryside have pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda-lined group, Jabhat al-Nusra. The rebel groups...

Gulf countries, led by Saudi Arabia, are moving to strengthen their military support for Syrian rebels and develop policy options independent from the United States in the wake of what they see as a failure of U.S. leadership following President Obama’s decision not to launch airstrikes...