GAZIANTEP, Turkey — North of Aleppo, the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army is battling the Islamic State terror group over a vital supply route. In Washington, the Obama administration is groping for a strategy to deal with a force that...
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...
