Syrian rebels have made fresh advances near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Qunaitra province, where 26 troops and 17 rebels were killed in a battle Saturday, an activist group said. Fighting has raged in the province since August, when rebels and the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra...

A Qatari delegation is engaged in mediation with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to end Lebanon’s most recent hostage crisis, the militant group has claimed, in what analysts and commentators said was part of Doha’s ambitious plans to play a more influential regional...

The Lebanese army is investigating photographs purportedly showing a second soldier who had been beheaded by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a military source said Saturday. An apparent ISIS supporter posted a photo on Twitter showing a masked man wearing black, holding...

(Reuters) - A French journalist held hostage for months in Syria said on Saturday that one of his captors was a Frenchman suspected of killing four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May. The reporter, Nicolas Henin, said he recognized Mehdi Nemmouche from video shown...