Two thousand Syrian Islamist fighters, including ISIS and Nusra Front militants, were expected to be evacuated soon from besieged, rebel-held areas of southern Damascus in a deal brokered by the U.N., Reuters said Friday. Eighteen buses had arrived in the al Qadm area of Damascus to take them...

Islamic State has sanctioned the harvesting of human organs in a previously undisclosed ruling by the group’s Islamic scholars, raising concerns that the violent extremist group may be trafficking in body parts.     The ruling, contained in a January 31, 2015...

A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab rebel groups advanced toward a dam in northern Syria held by Islamic State fighters on Thursday, in an assault aimed at capturing the militants' stronghold of Raqqa, rebels and a monitor said. They said the push by fighters of the Democratic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One Islam Army fighter has been killed on Thursday in clashes with an-ISIS-linked group in Dumeir city east of Damascus, the local coordination said. The infighting has renewed after nearly two weeks of fragile truce between Islam Army and Jaish al-Tahrir, or Liberation Army,...