(Reuters) - Qatar is working to help free four Americans held hostage in Syria by various armed groups, a Gulf source familiar with the matter said on Monday, a day after the Gulf Arab state's diplomacy helped free a journalist held since 2012. The source declined to name...

    (Zaman Alwasl)- As the Islamic State reflects humiliating defeats on Bashar al-Assad’s forces east Syria, pro-regime activists’ rage has been sparked through social media, demanding oust of Defence Minister....

(Reuters) - A Saudi court has jailed 17 men for up to 33 years on a range of militant Islamist charges, including fighting in foreign conflicts and joining terrorist cells inside the kingdom, state news agency SPA reported on Monday. Riyadh's concerns about Islamist militants...

(Reuters) - The United Nations condemned on Monday "appalling, widespread" crimes by Islamic State forces in Iraq , including mass executions of prisoners that could amount to war crimes. U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay condemned "grave, horrific human rights violations"...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl)- Following Mario Zenari’s, the pope's Syria envoy, opinion about the situation in Syria, Burhan Ghalioun, the first President of the National Council, revealed on his Facebook page that many attempts to meet...

BEIRUT (AP) — While offering to assist any international effort to fight Islamic State militants, Syria's foreign minister warned the U.S. Monday not to conduct airstrikes against the group inside Syria without Damascus' consent, saying any such attack would be considered an...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Activists of Daraya, south-west outskirts of the Syrian capital, said all efforts to reach a truce have been postponed by regime. People of Daraya, a poor Sunni community, are looking for a long-term truce allowing them to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. mourned an American journalist executed by Islamic militants, the nation found something of a reprieve with the release of another freelance reporter who had been held hostage for nearly two years by an al-Qaida-linked group in Syria. Peter Theo...

ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — Gen. Martin Dempsey says that once he determines that the Islamic State militants in Iraq have become a direct threat to the U.S. homeland, he will recommend the U.S. military move directly against the group in Syria. But the chairman of the...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Rebels have killed 4 Islamic State’s fighters, including an American jihadist, near Marea town northern Aleppo on Sunday, field source told Zaman Alwasl. Source said the American jihadist was planning to carry a suicide operation in the...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Pro-Islamic State activists and supporters praised the efforts made by IS newly military commander (Emir) in Raqqa as the militant group has captured of Tabqa airbase, some 40 km (25 miles) east of the city of Raqqa. The foreign...

(AFP)- Syrian troops killed 32 rebels in an ambush in the southern province of Daraa in the early hours of Sunday morning, a monitoring group said. The ambush was also reported by Syrian state television, which said "tens of terrorists" had been killed in the attack in the west...

    HAMA (Zaman Alwasl)- Activists and monitoring group have reported violent clashes between regime forces backed by National Defence Forces and Hezbollah against rebels in Hama countryside. Rebels have killed at least 10 Syrian army troops...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Islamic State fighters on Sunday have captured al-Tabqa airbase in Raqqa province after 4 days of fierce fighting with forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad, a monitoring group and pro-IS activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said...

Rocket fire from Syria slammed into the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights Sunday but there were no reports of casualties. "At least five rockets fired from Syria hit different locations across the Golan Heights," the Israeli army said in a statement. An army...

Damascus, Aug 24 (IANS) Syrian tribesmen killed 18 Islamic State (IS) fighters in the oil-rich province of Deir al-Zour in eastern Syria Saturday, media reports said. The Ukaydat tribesmen succeeded in freeing their leader Sheikh Khalil Jadan, who was kidnapped by IS fighters...

Saudi Arabia is to host a meeting of foreign ministers from several Arab states to discuss the Syrian conflict and the rise of Islamic State jihadists, Egypt's foreign ministry announced Saturday. It said Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia were to...

Young Syrians are gravitating towards the radical Islamic State due to a lack of prospects and the lure of financial support more than "ideological conviction", the pope's Syria envoy said Saturday. IS militants, which have been active in the Syrian conflict for several years,...

LONDON (Reuters) - Qatar condemned on Saturday the Islamic State's "barbaric" murder of U.S. journalist James Foley and flatly rejected accusations of giving financial support to the militant group. Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah's comments came a day after the German...

LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester United are close to signing Real Madrid's Argentina winger Angel Di Maria in a deal that is expected to smash the British transfer record, according to media reports. British newspapers said a move for the 26-year-old is likely to cost more than...