(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Saturday thwarted an attack by regime's armed forces on the eastern region of Qalamoun Mountains, pressing slow advances in the desert area of historic Palmyra city east Homs, activists said. Backed by Islamist...

(Reuters) - Islamic State commanders are liable for war crimes on a "massive scale" in northeast Syria , where they spread terror by beheading, stoning and shooting civilians and captured fighters, U.N. investigators said on Friday. Their report, based on over 300 interviews...

  The U.N.’s “action plan” to call a temporary halt to the violence in Syria will only work to strengthen the Assad regime, an opposition leader said on Friday to Anadolu Agency. In an exclusive interview with the Turkish news agency,   the defense minister of the...

(Reuters) - After Iraqi sniper Ali al-Tulaibawi returned from his training on the battlefields of Syria his commander sent him on a months-long mission to shoot Islamic State militants from the towers of Iraq's biggest oil refinery. Tulaibawi says he is one of the 150 Shi'ite...