BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb exploded in a northern Syrian town near the Turkish border Saturday, killing and wounding a number of people hours after Syrian rebels shot down a helicopter gunship over a slum in the northern city of Aleppo, activists said. The Aleppo Media Center...

Damascus (AFP) - Islamic State fighters have seized a Syrian army base in the northern province of Raqa, killing scores of troops and beheading some of them, a monitoring group said Saturday. The takeover of Division 17 base came as the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said...

Al Jazeera- Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 12-hour humanitarian truce to begin at 8am (05:00 GMT) on Saturday to pause hostilities in Gaza. Hamas said that it and other armed groups in Gaza had reached "national consensus on a humanitarian truce". Israel later confirmed...

  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...