Turkish security forces on Sunday stopped and searched seven trucks near the Syrian border suspected to be loaded with weapons -- but let them go when they discovered Turkish intelligence personnel on board, according to media and officials. Local media reported that a big...
A powerful alliance of Syrian Islamist rebels rejected upcoming peace talks on Sunday, meaning that even if the talks reach an unlikely breakthrough in the three year old civil war, it will be harder to implement it on the ground. Syria's main political opposition group in exile, the...
A deadly rocket attack targeted the eastern Beqaa town of Arsal on Friday morning, killing at least seven people “Seven people have been killed and 15 others injured in the rocket attack on Arsal,” Lebanon’s state National News Agency reported....
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has lost its HQ in Jarabulus city, north Aleppo, after fierce fighting with Islamist rebels for the last few days, local sources told Zaman Alwasl. ISIL’s commander in Jarabulus (Emir) Abu Huffs al-Masri has been killed,...
