Al-Qaeda affiliate, the 'Islamic State' is planning to capture the town of Atareb, a fter controlling the border town of Azaz two weeks ago,  activists reported to Zaman Alwasl. Rebels' reaction so far was calling for mobilization all fighters groups in Atareb to...

  The strange thing about the crackup in U.S.-Saudi relations is that it has been on the way for more than two years, like a slow-motion car wreck, but nobody in Riyadh or Washington has done anything decisive to avert it. The breach became dramatic over the past week....

The toll from a car bomb explosion at a mosque in Suq Wadi Barada near Damascus Friday soared to at least 40, including seven children, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Syrian government and opposition exchanged blame for the carnage in the town. Suq Wadi Barada is under...

A Syrian refugee mother living in Jordan ended the life of her son with a gasoline injection, saying she wanted to relieve him from the difficult living conditions, AFP’s Arabic wire service reported on Friday, quoting a Jordanian security source. The mother had...