SWEIDA (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 15 people, including 7 Druze clerics, were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday when al-Qaeda-linked group backed with tribes’ fighters stormed Deir Dama village near Sweida city, activists said. Zaman...

(Reuters) - The United States on Saturday conducted air strikes in Iraq against Islamic State fighters near the Kurdish capital of Arbil and the Mosul dam, the U.S. Central Command said. The Mosul dam, Iraq's biggest, fell under control of Islamic State militants earlier this...

Islamic State jihadists have killed more than 700 members of a tribe in eastern Syria in two weeks, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. Among the members of the Shaitat tribe killed were 100 fighters, but the rest were civilians, the Britain-based...

(Al Jazeera)- Syria's opposition has called for international intervention targeting the Islamic State group, just days after the US began limited strikes against fighters from the same group in neighbouring Iraq. Earlier, US officials had asked the Syrian opposition to...