Damascus, Sep 20 (IANS) Syrian forces Saturday started a wide-scale offensive on a key rebel-held Syrian city northeast of the capital Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the Syrian Air Force carried out eight airstrikes on Adra and the nearby Tal Kurdi,...

(Al Jazeera)- The Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's wing in Syria, has killed one of ten Lebanese soldiers it had been holding in captivity, Lebanese security sources and a statement on Twitter said. The statement, posted on Friday by an account affiliated with the group, said the soldier had...

Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-   The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has established its own intelligence agency in territory it control in Syria, mostly from civilians loyal to the...

BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State fighters backed by tanks have captured 21 Kurdish villages over the past 24 hours in northern Syria near the Turkish border, prompting civilians to flee their homes amid fears of retribution by the extremists sweeping through the area, activists said....