(Reuters) - Al Qaeda's North African wing has rejected the mediaeval-style caliphate declared by a militant Islamist group in Iraq and Syria, and confirmed its allegiance to al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, according a statement posted on social media. The group calling...

(AFP)- A Syrian rebel commander was shot dead in Amman in an apparent revenge killing by family members, Jordanian police said Sunday as the opposition blamed the Damascus regime for his death. Maher Rahhal, who headed the Liwa al-Mujahideen Brigade, one of the groups fighting...

Jordan, where the US Central Intelligence Agency has been covertly training Syrian rebels for more than a year, is reluctant to host an expanded rebel instruction programme, US officials say. Jordan's reticence, confirmed by four US officials, is a potentially serious setback...

(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Dani Murad) Syrian regime militias, more commonly known as ‘Shabiha’ portray the structure and goals of the Assad regime to accumulate personal wealth and ensure its own survival at all costs,...