An online forum that frequently features statements from jihadists has called on an Al-Qaeda-linked militant group to free two Spanish journalists who were kidnapped in September in Syria. The Honein jihadist forum urged "our brothers the mujahedeen (holy warriors) in the...

As the first flakes of snow fell on the already frozen ground of southern Turkey Tuesday night, refugee agencies and activists were scrambling to finish preparations ahead of the initial storm of a season that could further devastate refugees from Syria's ongoing civil war. A winter...

Radical Islamic group state of Iraq and The Levant took control of the town of Maskenh near Aleppo city after fierce clashes with Ahrar al-Sham movement, activists said. The Islamic movement is mobilizing its units to retaliate the ISIL offensive and retake the city, sources...

Egypt said Tuesday it has granted three-month residence permits to 171 out of a total of 206 Syrian and Palestinian immigrants who were detained for illegally entering the country. Foreign ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty said the Syrians and Palestinians had entered Egyptian waters...