(Reuters) - Syria's al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and other Sunni Muslim militants fought during the night to capture two Shi'ite villages in the country's north but were repelled, activists on both sides of the war and a monitoring group said on Friday. The insurgents were...

(Reuters) - Prominent Syrian opposition figure Mouaz Al Khatib said on Friday he had turned down an invitation to a Moscow meeting with Syrian government officials, in a further blow to Russian efforts to find a solution to the Syrian conflict. "We decided to decline ... this is because...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly condemned Thursday the killing of "thousands" of people in a Nigerian town by Boko Haram militants. "Terror attacks in which innocent people are brutally killed cannot be tolerated regardless of religion, civilization, and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Shariah court of rebel-held Aleppo on Wednesday urged men who are between 18 and 35 year-old to not enter government-held areas of war-torn city to avoid military conscription. Bashar al-Assad regime announced last week general...