Syrian Kurdish fighters said they had fully secured the town of Kobani near the Turkish border on Saturday and killed more than 60 Islamic State militants, two days after the hardline group launched an incursion with suicide bombers. Further east, Islamic State pressed another assault on...

Four people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said. In the Obeidi district of eastern Baghdad a bomb exploded near a crowded market, killing two people. Another bomb went of near a crowded grocery market in the Doura district of southern...

Facing inconsistent governmental policies and confusing bureaucracy, Palestinian Syrians in Lebanon are struggling to obtain and maintain proper residency status in the country. Palestinian Syrians are required to renew their residency permits every three months and risk arrest or a heavy fine...

(Reporting by Abdullah al-Ghadawi; transaltion by Yusra Ahmed) People’s Protection Units (YPG) prevented the “Facts Finding Committee” formed by the Syrian National Coalition from entering the town of Tel Abyad after defeating the Islamic State (ISIS), activists told Zaman al-Wasl on...