The new leader of Sayfullakh Shishani’s jamaat, a Chechen native named as Mohammed Khorasani, has made a video address in which he calls on Chechens in Europe and Chechnya to come to Syria and fight. Sayfullakh’s jamaat fights under the auspices of Jabhat al-Nusra but is a...

  Germany  faces an increased threat of attack due to around a dozen German militants who have returned from the conflict in  Syria  with specialist knowledge of weapons and bomb-making, German intelligence officers said. Hans-Georg Maassen, head of...

Not long after the uprising in Syria turned bloody, late in the spring of 2011, the Pentagon and the National Security Agency developed a battle plan that featured a sophisticated cyberattack on the Syrian military and President Bashar al-Assad’s command structure. The...

Almost three years into Syria’s civil war, civilians are still being targeted by all sides, and aid efforts continue to be prevented and undermined. This was the assessment delivered today by UN Deputy Humanitarian Chief,  Ms. Kyung-wha Kang  in a statement to the UN General...