DAMASCUS (NBC News) — Syria has “no reservations” about U.S. airstrikes against ISIS and wants to team up with Washington to tackle the militants, the country’s deputy foreign minister told NBC News. Faisal Mekdad called Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad “a...

(Zaman Al Wasl) – Syrian regime airstrikes on Douma, a rebel-held city northeast Damascus, killed at least 20 people, including 4 children and a woman, on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a...

An Iraqi journalist has been kidnapped by Islamic State militants who are threatening to behead him if he refuses to work for them, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned Thursday. Raad Mohammed al-Azzawi, a cameraman, was taken prisoner on September 7 in Samarra,...

Arab nations rallied Thursday behind US President Barack Obama's call for expanding operations against jihadists in Iraq and Syria, but Damascus warned it would consider any action on its territory as an attack. Ten states, including heavyweight Saudi Arabia, "agreed to do...