BEIRUT: Two Syrian children died Saturday morning after suffocating from a fire that erupted in their home in the Bekaa Valley, the National News Agency said. The two Syrian girls were identified as Ayah, 5, and her younger sister, four-year-old Hala, who were in their house...

(Reuters) - Islamic State's self-declared police force in western Syria decapitated four men after accusing them of blasphemy, a rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Saturday. The men were beheaded in the countryside east of the city of Homs by the militant...

In the summer of 2004, a young jihadist in shackles and chains was walked by his captors slowly into the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. He was nervous as two American soldiers led him through three brightly-lit buildings and then a maze of wire corridors, into an open yard,...

 As details from the summary of a  6,000-page U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture and detention methods used by the CIA surface, politicians, leaders and critics have reacted with outrage. The report summary disclosed not only that "waterboarding"...