In Syria's Aleppo, devastated by two years of fighting and regime attacks, rebels and activists are eager for US strikes against jihadists they say have stolen their anti-government uprising. The United States has yet to decide on whether it will carry out air strikes in Syria...

(AFP)- At 13, Samiha left school and the home she shared with 10 people near Baalbek in eastern Lebanon to live in a tent with her new husband, a 41-year-old tradesman. "I didn't feel anything, I didn't have a choice," she said of the marriage, arranged by her father. "The...

The United Nations confirmed that an armed group captured 43 UN peacekeepers on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Thursday, saying it was doing everything to secure their release. "Forty-three peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) were...

Police in the Netherlands and Germany have arrested two men for allegedly recruiting jihadi fighters to go to Iraq and Syria, Dutch police said Thursday. A woman was also held with the man arrested in Germany as part of a long-running investigation, police said in a statement. All...

An Egyptian jihadist group on Thursday released a video in which it claimed responsibility for beheading four men accused of being "Israeli informants" before showing the victims' decapitated bodies. In the video, militants belonging to Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, considered the...

Briyar Kamal, a 24-year-old Kurdish student, achieved good marks at university, but instead of relaxing during his summer holiday he is fighting jihadists who have overrun swathes of Iraq. "If the nation needs me here, I will continue to fight. Only when the situation improves...

Islamic State jihadists have executed "dozens" of fleeing Syrian soldiers, a monitor said Thursday, the latest in a string of brutal abuses alarming Western powers who fear a global spread of the terror. News of the killings comes as US President Barack Obama is reportedly...

BEIRUT (The Daily Star)- The images of what appears to be the beheading of a Lebanese Army soldier, Ali Sayyed- one of eleven soldiers captured by ISIS militants was heavily circulated on social media Thursday evening. “Now you know who are the lions of ISIS,” tweeted Abou Misaab...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Commander of al-Omari brigades in south Syria was killed when an activist works in media shot him dead in Jalin village in Daraa province, activists and a monitoring group said. Former ٍSyrian army defector, Captain Qais Qataena, was...

By George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad (Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian women not only have borne the burden of the country’s brutal three-year war, but many having taken on new roles as political activists, detainees, humanitarians ,family breadwinners,...

(Zaman Alwasl)-   The media center of al-Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front posted online tens of photos showing Quneitra border crossing, a day after taking control of the post situated on the line dividing Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights....

KIRKUK: Retreating jihadists set three wells ablaze at a northern Iraq oil field Thursday as they battled Kurdish forces that launched a major attack nearby, officials said. ISIS jihadists set the wells on fire before deserting the Ain Zalah field, which was seized by militants...

(Zaman Alwasl- Reuters) - Islamic State militants have executed Syrian army soldiers who were held as captives after capturing an air base in northeast Syria at the weekend, footage and pictures posted on social media by supporters showed on Thursday. The footage showed tens of...

(Zaman Alwasl)- The trauma of Tabqa airbase fall last Sunday by Islamic State group has been continued with tens of pleas by mothers and families of missing Syrian army soldiers who believed to be held captives by IS, which controls swathes of territory in...

High-ranking Saudi envoys held talks with the Qatari emir on Wednesday after months of strained relations over Doha's support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Libya and Syria. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, intelligence chief Prince Khaled bin Bandar, and...

(Reuters) - The Lebanese army shelled militant positions in the border zone with Syria on Wednesday near a town that was seized by Islamist insurgents earlier this month, a security source said. It was the first such engagement since the radical Sunni Muslim militants including...

An American woman has pleaded for the life of her journalist son, held hostage in Syria by the Islamic State group, just over a week after self-declared jihadists beheaded a fellow US reporter and threatened more murders. In a video released on Wednesday, Shirley Sotloff directly...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Council on Wednesday said it was aware of media reports that a second American associated with Islamic State militant fighters had been killed in Syria, but it could not confirm the death. The reports came a day after a U.S....

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama faces a familiar question as he contemplates airstrikes in Syria: Should Congress have a say in his decision? Obama was barreling toward strikes last summer when he abruptly announced that he first wanted approval from congressional...

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian jets shelled rebel positions near a border crossing close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that was seized by rebels in some of the heaviest clashes in the strategic area this year, rebels and residents said on Thursday. Al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra...