MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday the legitimacy of U.S. air strikes against Islamic State are in doubt because of the lack of approval from its ally Syria, where some of the strikes are being carried out, and the United Nations. "There...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Asiya Ummi Abdullah doesn't share the view that the Islamic State group rules over a terrorist dystopia and she isn't scared by the American bombs falling on Raqqa, its power center in Syria. As far as she's concerned, it's the ideal place to raise a family. In...

President Barack Obama called on the world Wednesday to join the US-led coalition to defeat jihadists in Iraq and Syria. "The United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death," Obama told the UN General Assembly. "Today I ask the world to...

  Reporting by Mohamed Al Faris; Writing to Zaman English by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A member of the investigation committee for measles vaccine case that caused death of 36 children last week, revealed that staff of “Jerjanaz” vaccination...

(Zaman Al Wasl- EA World View)- Opposition activists are claiming a new regime toxic gas attack, this time on Adra, 12 miles north of Damascus. They claim seven people have died. The Syrian military has stepped up bombardment of Adra, taken by...

(Reuters) - The United States informed Iran in advance of its intention to strike Islamic State militants in Syria and assured Tehran that it would not target the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a senior Iranian official told Reuters. The communication,...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Writing to Zaman English by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-   Activists have circulated on social media photo for Mahmood Jomaa. the 3-month-old infant who was killed with his mother by U.S.-led airstrikes on Idlib...

(Reuters) - Air strikes overnight hit Islamic State-held territory in Syria near the Turkish border, near an area that tens of thousands of Kurds have fled as the militant group advanced, an organization that tracks the Syrian war said on Wednesday. Rami Abdulrahman, who...

Writing to Zaman English by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- All have been waiting the outcomes of the US-Arab alliance strikes on Islamic State for Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” while US planned to hit another Islamic group adopts Jihad principles, but different...

A Syrian rebel group that has reportedly received weapons from the United States criticised air strikes Tuesday by a US-led coalition against jihadists in the war-torn country. The Hazm Movement, in a statement posted on their Twitter account, said the strikes would undermine...

  By Armin Rosen| Business Insider The United States has submitted its international legal justification for its strikes on Syria to the other 14 members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). According to Bloomberg News , the US is claiming that it's carrying out...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's air force participated in U.S.-led bombing strikes against Islamic State insurgents in Syria, its official news agency said on Wednesday, a rare foreign sortie for the kingdom's military. Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, the world's top...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Hezbollah said on Tuesday his Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim group opposed U.S-led air strikes on Syria. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose group has been helping Syria's President Bashar al-Assad fight a Sunni-dominated insurgency, was...

(Reuters) - The United States and its Arab allies bombed Syria for the first time on Tuesday, killing scores of Islamic State fighters and members of a separate al Qaeda-linked group, opening a new front against militants by joining Syria's three-year-old civil war. In a...

BEIRUT ( The Daily Star) : A rocket attack reportedly crashed into the location where captives from Lebanon’s military and security forces captured by Nusra Front militants last month are being held. A...

Syrian Kurdish fighters have halted an advance by Islamic State fighters to the east of a predominantly Kurdish town near the border with Turkey, a spokesman for the main armed Kurdish group told Reuters. "Fierce clashes are still under way but the ISIS...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Faris; Writing to Zaman English by Dani Murad (Zaman Al Wasl)- In just a year, the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) has set up an efficient government in Eastern Syria, and since then so many stories have surfaced...

(Reuters) - Israel shot down a Syrian warplane on Tuesday, saying the aircraft crossed the battle lines of Syria's civil war and flew over the Israeli-held Golan Heights, perhaps by accident. The incident coincided with but did not appear to be directly related to air...

(Reuters) - The United States launched air and missile strikes with Arab allies in Syria for the first time on Tuesday, killing dozens of Islamic State fighters and members of a separate al Qaeda-linked group, and widening its new war in the Middle East. "I can confirm that...

  Writing to Zaman English by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Muslim Brotherhood group is facing a severe financial crisis, according to documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl. According to semi-official letter submitted by senior member...