Extremists are not just trying to overthrow Assad but to set up an Islamic state on Israel’s doorstep, major general warns   ''An extensive global jihad center is developing right on Israel’s doorstep,'' the IDF’s head of military research Aviv Kochavi said...

Bashar al-Assad's militias are "cleansing" towns and villages of their Sunni Muslim inhabitants across the Syrian province of Homs, refugee families and residents have told The Daily Telegraph. The "Shabiha", a loyalist militia drawn largely from the  Syrian  president's...

Hundreds of men who took up arms against President Bashar al-Assad are defecting back to the government side, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. Disillusioned by the Islamist twist that the "revolution" in  Syria  has taken, exhausted after more than two years of conflict...

Arab Islamists and Kurdish militants, two of the most controversial armed groups in Syria’s civil war, for the past week have been battling each other for control of key towns close to the Turkish border after the Kurds announced a plan to declare local autonomy. The United States views...