The Lebanese Army pounded jihadi hideouts on the outskirts of Arsal Tuesday, as fresh clashes erupted in the area between ISIS and Al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front. A security source told The Daily Star that Army units located in the northeast region of Wadi Rafeq shelled jihadi positions deep in the...

Syrian Islamist rebels on Tuesday have seized full control of regime’s powerful stronghold of of al-Mastouma camp in Idlib province, for the first time since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011, activists said. The alliance of Islamist groups, including the Nusra Front, who seized large...

  A new chlorine attack has taken place in Mishmishan village in the Syrian north-western province of Idlib, a monitoring group said Tuesday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said at least 19 victims suffocating due to chlorine gas attack on Mishmishan village near the captured...

SALHIYEH, Jordan (AP) — A Syrian refugee couple and their baby boy were recently dropped from a U.N. food voucher program and live on $9-a-day jobs on a peach farm in northern Jordan. In a town nearby, a 16-year-old boy quit school to work as a mechanic’s helper because his refugee...

( By Al-Souria Net, Translation by The Syrian Observer) In an exclusive interview with al-Souria Net, Army of Islam commander Zahran Alloush reveals that the major decision-making power in Syria is now in the hands of Iran, explaining that the recent assassination of senior regime officers was...

ISIS jihadis attacked a village in Syria's southern Druze heartland Tuesday and clashed with pro-government forces north of the ancient city of Palmyra, an activist group said. "ISIS killed five fighters from the National Defense Forces and one woman in their attack on the Druze village of...

Military Prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr filed an appeal Monday against what was viewed as a lenient jail sentence handed down to former Minister Michel Samaha last week, demanding a tougher penalty, judicial sources told The Daily Star. The appeal, submitted to the Military Court of Cassation,...

The Islamic State's gains in the Iraqi city of Ramadi are setback for Iraqi security forces, the top U.S. military officer said on Monday, adding such setbacks were "regrettable but not uncommon in warfare." "Much effort will now be required to reclaim the city," Army General Martin Dempsey,...

 Syria has accused Jordan of training "terrorists" on its soil and urged the U.N. Security council to force an end to Amman's backing of rebel groups. The accusation came in a letter sent Monday by the foreign ministry to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the president of the U.N....

ISIS seized two gas fields Monday northeast of Syria's ancient Palmyra, a day after firing rockets into the city and killing five people, activists said. The Al-Hail and Arak gas fields, 40 and 25 kilometers (25 and 15 miles) respectively from Palmyra, were vital for the government's...

An armed group allied to the Libya Dawn forces controlling Tripoli has detained 170 Tunisians in the Libyan capital since Saturday after Tunis arrested one of its commanders, Tunisian officials said on Monday. Brahim Rezgui, Tunisian consul in Tripoli, told a Tunis radio...

The captured wife of a senior Islamic State leader who was killed in a weekend raid will face questions over what she and her husband knew about the group's treatment of hostages, including Americans, U.S. officials said. The U.S. government believes the leader, Abu Sayyaf, was...

Israel has detained a Palestinian with dual Canadian and Jordanian citizenship suspected of links with the Islamist group Hamas, an Israeli security official told Reuters on Monday. The official, who could not be named, said Ibrahim Siam was detained on May 5 at the Allenby...

When Lebanon's Hezbollah first joined Syria's war on the side of President Bashar al-Assad, its role was a closely guarded secret. Today, as Hezbollah plants its flag in land won from rebels north of Damascus, its role could hardly be more public. And for Syria's increasingly embattled...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Lebanese Army has exceeded all the red lines in the bad treatment of Syrian refugees, they even forced a woman to get out of the bathroom naked beside humiliating children and women.  Sheikh Hosam Ghali, member of the International Union for Muslim...

The U.N. Syria envoy who is presiding over the Geneva peace consultations, has asked the National Coalition for a new meeting in Istanbul, days after an official rejection to attend the planned Geneva talks by the Western-backed opposition and armed groups. Zaman al-Wasl source said the...

Syrian Islamist rebels on Sunday have seized control of strategic towns of al-Mastouma and al-Muqbela in Idlib province, pressing hard to capture a nearby military camp, activists said. The alliance of Islamist groups including the Nusra Front want to cut a supply route links Ariha town with...

Washington (AFP) - Nine people were killed and several injured Sunday after a shootout between rival biker gangs in Waco, Texas, local media reported. Fighting broke out in a restaurant parking lot between the rival groups, who used clubs and knives before pulling guns, according to Sargent...

 Barcelona won the Spanish La Liga title for the 23rd time by beating Atletico Madrid, 1-0, with a match to spare Sunday. Catalan giants' Argentine star forward Lionel Messi scored in the 65th minute enabling Barca to snatch the title at the Vicente Calderon Stadium. Meanwhile,...

Turkey does not make friends with those who sentence their democratically-elected president to death, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday. Addressing an election rally of the ruling Justice and Development, or AK Party, in Istanbul's Maltepe Square, Davutoglu called the...