A red-bearded Islamic State commander described by American officials as the group's de facto minister of war may have been killed in an air strike in Syria on Friday by the U.S.-led coalition, several U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Abu Omar al-Shishani, also known as Omar the...

ISIS recruited Jihadists from over 40 countries worldwide including Iran and Russia. 72% of them are Arabs, 1.7% are Syrians. Main ISIS fighters' nationalities are Saudi, Tunisian, Moroccan and Egyptian. 25% of ISIS fighters are Saudis.  Turkish fighters take the lead among...

The Syrian Kurdish PYD party on Tuesday accused opposition groups backed by Saudi Arabia of throwing obstacles in the way of peace talks and said the U.N.-led effort to convene negotiations faced "many hurdles". PYD co-leader Saleh Muslim, whose party exercises wide influence over...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army backed by allied Shiite forces recaptured a village from Islamist insurgents hours after Nusra Front and others seized the area south of city of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. The al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and Islamist...