Syria's main opposition group Thursday insisted President Bashar Assad must go as it rejected calls to join forces against ISIS jihadis ahead of a meeting with Russia's foreign minister. The head of Syria's National Coalition Khaled Khoja is in Moscow for talks with top diplomat Sergei Lavrov...

Two Israeli Arabs have been arrested after an unsuccessful bid to join the ranks of ISIS by passing through Turkey to Syria, security and judicial sources said Thursday. Adnan Salameh, from Ramleh near Tel Aviv, was arrested at that city's Ben Gurion airport on July 28 after having been...

(Reporting by Soufian Jbawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Tens of rebels in Hafir Alfoka town in the western region of Qalamoun have handed themselves to the Syrian regime as large part of them have joined paramilitary defense forces. a move came to escape the severe siege and warning of...

 Two huge explosions tore through an industrial area where toxic chemicals and gas were stored in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 44 people, including at least a dozen fire fighters, officials and state media said on Thursday. At least 520 people were injured,...