The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria killed dozens of Syrian government soldiers in an attack on an army base, a Syrian activist group said on Friday. The group, the Syrian Observatory for Hum an Rights, which monitors the conflict from Britain through a network of contacts in...

(Reporting by Sarah Abdul Hai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abductions' news is the most prominent these days in Sweida province. The Western and Western North are the regions with highest incidence of abduction; most of them have financial blackmailing...

  The Islamic State group has taken full control of Division 17, the last stronghold of Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the eastern province of Raqqa, sources and media activists reported on Thursday. Normal 0...

The UN has sent its first humanitarian aid convoy into rebel-held areas of Syria without government consent on Thursday, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon accused warring parties of denying assistance to millions as a tactic of war. "A convoy of nine trucks crossed into Syria today from...