As Western countries display increasing alarm at the strength of multinational Islamist extremists among rebels in Syria opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, a Syrian official was quoted on Wednesday as saying Western intelligence agencies had sent representatives to Damascus...

The State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader has been killed in Saraqib City in Syria's Idleb province, according to Activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Activists reported that he was killed during an ambush by fighters from the Islamic front who...

Syrian rebels have made gains in Jarabulus city, north Aleppo, against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), local sources told Zaman Alwasl. Jarabulus, the city which lies on the western bank of the Euphrates river, has been freed from the ISIL control except...

A memorial service was held in a Sydney mosque on Monday for Muslim woman Amira Karroum, and her husband Yusuf Ali who were killed in Syria last week. Amira Karroum, 22, had left her Sydney home in December, telling her family she was headed to Denmark to holiday with...