Syria has become the pre-eminent global incubator for a new generation of militants after Islamist groups more than doubled their recruitment of foreign fighters to as much as 31,000 over the past 18 months, according to a former British spy chief. In the chaos of Syria's...

Syrian regime forces backed by Iranian troops edged closer to a major rebel-controlled highway south of Aleppo Tuesday, pushing further into insurgent-held areas supported by heavy Russian airstrikes. After seizing a series of villages including Zitan, Humaira and Qalaajiya, the army said it...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that Russia had for the first time struck ISIS targets in Syria with missiles fired from a submarine in the Mediterranean. "The targets were two large terrorist positions in the territory of Raqqa," Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin in a...

(Zaman Al Wasl) - Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, said its fighter who had carried out the suicide bombing against Syrian regime forces in southern countryside of Aleppo on Tuesday is Turkish. Nusra said on social media that Younis al-Turkey had blown himself up in an army checkpoint...