The leader of al-Qaeda has ordered the re-organization of jihadist efforts in Syria and Iraq by abolishing the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) and giving the Nusra Front sole responsibility for activities in war-torn Syria.   In an audio tape...

  Troops backed by Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters and other pro-regime militiamen on Thursday retook Sbeineh, a major rebel enclave south of Damascus, a monitoring group and state television said.   "Sbeineh was one of the most important...

Assad forces are trying to commit more massacres in the Central Prison of Aleppo by shelling the detainees' chambers where a state of rebellion is prevailed within the political prisoners, according to prominent activist.   Yet, one prisoner has been killed...

A car bomb killed at least eight security personnel on Wednesday in an attack on a military intelligence building in the southern Syrian city of Suweida, which has been largely peaceful during the Syrian civil war.  “A suicide attacker detonated himself in a car bomb in front of the...