(Reuters) - President Barack Obama appointed a former White House adviser as Ebola "czar" on Friday and named officials to bolster the response to the disease in Texas, the center of U.S. Ebola cases, as the death toll in three West African nations topped 4,500. The White...

  (IANS/EFE) At least eight Islamist rebels died when a car bomb exploded near one of their bases in the northern Syrian province of Idleb, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported Friday. The London-based NGO said that the attack took place Thursday near a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A video posted online by rebels' supporters showed number of Syrian regime slain soldiers in Qalamoun Mountains as Islamist fighters took control of their military base on the Lebanese border last Monday. The fighters al-Asala Front...

(Reuters) - Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said on Friday, saying it was the first time that the militant group had taken to the air. The group, which has...