Pro-Jihadis' websites posted online undated photo for Moroccan family purporting fighting in Syria; the Father appeared with his 5 rebel sons. Since 2011, large numbers of Muslims have gone to Syria to fight with the rebels.   The Syrian conflict began as a...

A senior commander for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was gunned down Wednesday outside his home in southern Beirut, security officials said. Hezbollah blamed Israel for the killing, something officials there quickly denied. Hezbollah immediately announced the death of...

  Prominent Egyptian-born Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi has resigned from Al-Azhar's Senior Scholars Council, the prestigious Cairo-based religious institution's most authoritative body. In a Monday statement, al-Qaradawi said his resignation aimed to "register...

The much-anticipated "Geneva II" Syrian peace talks might not be held in Geneva due to insufficient hotel availability, UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said in an interview broadcast Tuesday. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon finally set a date last week for the peace conference,...