BEIRUT ( The Daily Star ): Lebanese Army defector Abdallah Shehadeh in a video released Thursday said Hezbollah’s "manipulation" of the military and its "discrimination" against Sunni personnel were what prompted him to join the Nusra Front. “We enlisted in the Army in order to...

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  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime armed forces on Thursday have continued aerial bombardment ground shelling on rebel-held Jobar neighborhood and neighboring outskirts, killing 14 people, activists and monitoring group said. Regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists reported sporadic clashes on the 'disputed' Qalamoun Mountains between Syrian rebels and fighters of Lebanese militia Hezbollah, saying on Wednesday bodies of 6 Shiite militants were delivered to their families in southern Lebanon....

(Reuters) - American-led forces have sharply intensified air strikes in the past two days against Islamic State fighters threatening Kurds on Syria's Turkish border after the jihadists' advance began to destabilize Turkey . The coalition had conducted 21 attacks on the...

(AP)- Syria's state-run news agency and a government official say gunmen have assassinated a lawmaker in the restive central province of Hama. SANA says Waris al-Younnes was gunned down while travelling on a road linking the city of Hama with the town of Salamiyeh. He represented Hama...

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(Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes have killed several hundred Islamic State fighters around the Syrian town of Kobani, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, but it cautioned that the town near Turkey's border could still fall to the Sunni militant group. The U.S.-led coalition has...

(Reuters) - U.S. aircraft carried out 18 strikes on Islamic State positions near the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani and five strikes against the group in Iraq on Tuesday and Wednesday, the U.S. military's Central Command said. The planes struck 16 buildings occupied...

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While the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) violence rages on, Turkey is pushing for a no-fly zone and a safe haven near the Syrian-Turkish border for Syrian refugees as thousands of civilians from the Syrian-Kurdish town of Kobani continue to flee into...

(Anadolu News Agency)- "Her lips were dark purple, her eyes were bloodshot and she was very weak when we arrived in Suruc," says Sewili Hamy, sitting beside her 8-year-old daughter, Besma, in an Istanbul hospital bed. Besma is just one of thousands of Syrian children caught up in...

The Israeli police closed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to Jewish settlers as thousands of Palestinian Muslim worshippers thronged in, a Palestinian official said. "The Israeli police closed Al-Magharbeh Gate, through which the Jewish settlers usually force their way into the...

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By Humeyra Pamuk and Daren Butler MURSITPINAR, Turkey/ISTANBUL, (Reuters) - A merican-led forces have sharply intensified air strikes in the past two days against Islamic State fighters threatening Kurds on Syria's Turkish border after the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have killed 5 soldiers in Handarat neighborhood of Aleppo province on Tuesday as the heavy fighting sharply escalated, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported for the first time the participation of new...

PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday there was no discrepancy between the United States and Turkey with regard to what Ankara “will or won’t do” in the fight against Islamic State insurgents. Speaking at a news conference in Paris...

The United States and its allies held top-level military talks Tuesday as Washington hailed signs of progress in the fight against jihadists following a wave of air strikes in Syria. American-led warplanes hammered Islamic State (IS) group militants with 21 bombing raids near...

  (Al Jazeera)- Ahmed Mansour, a presenter on Al Jazeera Arabic, has been sentenced in absentia to fifteen years imprisonment by Cairo's criminal court on the charge of torturing a lawyer in Tahrir Square during the January 25 uprising in 2011. Al Jazeera denies the charge...

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