A medic from Hamas was killed in the Yarmuk refugee camp south of the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, the Palestinian Islamist movement said. The movement said in a statement that it "mourns the death of the jihadist brother, the martyr, Yehya...

Syrian activists said bodies of 5 brothers from southern province of Daraa were identified by leaked mass torture photos. Jihad, Mohamed, Ahmed, Ridha and khaled Younes Sorour were arrested by Syrian regime forces on August 6 2012. The sixth brother,...

Here is a new Iraqi paradox: whatever progress the Shi’ite Muslim-dominated Baghdad government makes against jihadi insurgents occupying large swathes of north-western Iraq, it is simultaneously undermining what is left of the Iraqi state, whose frailty and malfunctions created the...

 A Syrian military source accused  Turkey  on Monday of helping Islamist rebels to stage an assault on Idlib, a provincial capital which fighters seized at the weekend. The source declined to comment on the situation in Idlib, citing security considerations, but a...