Islamic State jihadists advanced Monday to within five kilometres (three miles) of the key Kurdish town of Ain al-Arab on Syria's border with Turkey, a monitor said. The jihadists fired a volley of rockets that hit the town centre, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said,...

BEIRUT (AP) — American warplanes and drones hit Islamic State group tanks, Humvees, checkpoints and bunkers in airstrikes Friday targeting the extremists in Syria and Iraq, as the U.S.-led coalition expanded to include Britain, Denmark and Belgium. The European countries...

(Reuters) - The United States and its Arab allies bombed Syria for the first time on Tuesday, killing scores of Islamic State fighters and members of a separate al Qaeda-linked group, opening a new front against militants by joining Syria's three-year-old civil war. In a...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Editing by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Number of people with amputation in Syria reached to 25 thousand since 2011 according to medical statistics. Most amputations resulted from mines, cluster bombs, rockets and mortar...