In a statement on Monday, the Islamic State of Iraq and The levant (ISIL) dismissed the “Umma Initiative” for reconciliation, saying it was “fighting those who fight it, taking revenge from and curtailing the power of those who have wronged it without any hesitation.”...

A senior commander in Ahrar al-Sham, Islamic Front unit, said Islamist rebels have accepted to sign peace treaty with the Islamic State of Iraq and The levant (ISIL) and Islamist rebels, who still waiting the ISIL response, Jihadist sources said. Khaled Abu Anas, a...

  Syrian peace talks in Geneva were deadlocked Monday over the explosive issue of transferring power from President Bashar al-Assad's regime, delegates from the warring sides said. But both parties said they were not planning to walk away from the talks, even though a...

  They were sleepy tree-lined boulevards where people lived and worked, time-worn markets where they came to trade and exquisitely detailed mosques where, throughout the ages, they prayed. All now stand in ruins, ravaged by a war that is not only killing generations of...