Syrian regime has recruited the youth members of the governing Baath Party in a new armed militia called 'Al Baath Brigades', mainly composed of university students and operate under pro-Assad Student Union, sources said. The main mission of the newly formed brigades is...

 Twelve people including two children were killed on Thursday when a gas tank exploded at a Turkish restaurant in the Qatari capital Doha, authorities in the Gulf Arab state reported. About 30 others were injured in the blast at the Istanbul Restaurant that one security source...

  Syrian state television said a mortar shell landed near a hospital in a government-controlled neighborhood of the central city of Homs, killing at least five people.               State TV said the mortar...

An al Qaeda splinter group has demanded that Christians in a Syrian city it controls pay a levy in gold and curb displays of their faith in return for protection, according to a statement posted online on Wednesday. The Islamic State in  Iraq  and the Levant (ISIL),...