Gunmen killed at least 26 people on Sunday in an attack on a college in northeast Nigeria, a hospital source said, in a region where Islamist militants have targeted schools and universities. Islamist sect Boko Haram has intensified attacks on civilian targets in recent weeks in reaction...

At least nine people, most of them students, were killed in an air strike that hit a secondary school in the rebel-held Syrian city of Raqqa on Sunday, activists said. Raqqa in northeastern  Syria  has been under the control of insurgents fighting to oust President Bashar...

  Sen. John McCain has hired a controversial Syria analyst who recently was fired by one D.C. organization and resigned from another after it emerged that she inflated her academic credentials.   The Republican senator's office confirmed to Fox News...

  Leader of al-Islam Army, Zahran Alloush, denied today in his Twitter account any relationship with Basher al-Assad-baked businessman Mohamed Hamsho or receiving any funds from the controversial man.  Hours ago 43 brigade and battalion based announced...