As the latest jihadist-Kurdish military showdown eases in northeast Syria, Baghdad is keeping a close watch on a battle which threatens even greater instability in Iraq. Kurdish forces and Al-Qaeda-linked groups have for weeks fought over territory, with the Kurds taking over a...

At least two people were killed in a mortar attack on a church and a Christian school in the Syrian capital Damascus, activists said on Monday. The two shells were fired on the city's al-Qasssaa quarter and struck the Church of the Cross and St John's school, activists from...

  Syria  should immediately stop using incendiary weapons, Human Rights Watch said today in a  report  which documents at least 56 attacks using the weapons since November 2012. Human Rights Watch will present its concerns at the annual meeting of the Convention on...

  Religious extremism has noticeably increased among armed groups and fighting battalions on ground in Syria. Many activists tried to understand reasons behind this phenomenon; especially it is strange and was not known in the Syria society. Moreover, the...