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Kurds battle Islamist militants closing in on Syrian town

(Reuters) - Islamist militants attacking a Syrian border town fought some of their heaviest battles so far with Kurdish forces on Sunday, a local official said, and five people were wounded inside Turkey by a projectile fired across the frontier. Islamic State, an al Qaeda...

Syria's Assad regime tortured thousands, activists say

( Middle East Bulletin )- At least 5,396 people were tortured under the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a human rights group has reported, since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights, a non-partisan...