Syrian farmers near the Euphrates river are terrified the Islamic State group will literally open the floodgates to defend its stronghold Raqa, drowning their tiny villages in the process. Water levels of the Euphrates, which snakes down through northern Syria and east into Iraq, have shot...

 Iran's hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became the latest leader to join Twitter on Sunday, despite having been instrumental in getting it banned from the country. Ahmadinejad's first tweet from his personal account was a video in which he called on people to follow him at...

Tens of thousands of civilians have fled offensives against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, where the extremists are battling to keep what remains of their territory, the UN said Sunday. ISIS overran large areas of both countries in 2014, declaring a "caliphate" in territory it controlled, but the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine people, including rebel fighters, have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in northern Azaz town at the Turkish border, local reporter said Sunday. The suicide bombers blew himself up in  a building belongs to al-Jabah al-Shamiya, key rebel group operating in Aleppo...