Tag: Syria

Islamic State's defeat in Kobani and other recent setbacks in Syria suggest the group is under strain but far from collapse in the Syrian...

  Angelina Jolie has called on the international community to step up efforts to help refugees who have suffered “unspeakable brutality” in Syria and Iraq. Jolie,...

  A US court jailed a "radicalized" Colorado teenager intercepted by the FBI when she attempted to join her fiance in the Islamic State (IS)...

GENEVA- Syrians have overtaken Afghans as the largest refugee population aside from Palestinians, fleeing to more than 100 countries to escape war in their...

Syria said on Saturday it is willing to participate in “preliminary consultations” in Moscow aimed at restarting peace talks next year to end its...

Attacks on journalists have grown more barbaric and kidnappings have soared, Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday, after a year when violence against the media...

It is a show of force by the Al Qaeda branch, which in November drove mainstream rebels seeking President Bashar al-Assad's ouster from Idlib province.

The militant Islamic State group beheaded a man in northern Syria after accusing him of blasphemy, a militant website and a rights group said...

LONDON- Rich countries should agree to take at least 5 percent of all Syrian refugees by the end of 2015, aid agencies said as...

A Syrian military source said on Saturday that government forces had repelled an attack by Islamic State militants on an air base in the...

  Jihadists from the Islamic State group seized part of the key regime air base at Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria in fierce fighting on...

  The World Food Programme (WFP) suspended food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries, blaming a financing crisis caused by...

From the moment he was appointed last year, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel had a troubled relationship with President Barack Obama's tight-knit White House national...

Air strikes by US-led forces in Syria have killed 910 people, including 52 civilians, since the start of the campaign against Islamic State and...

WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama wants his advisers to review the administration's Syria policy after determining it may not be possible to defeat Islamic State militants...

Islamic State fighters, who now hold up to a third of Syria as well as swathes of Iraq and have declared a 'Caliphate' on the territories they control, took the larger Sha'ar gas field on Oct. 30.

A convoy of Iraqi peshmerga fighters and weaponry made its way across southeastern Turkey on Wednesday en route for the Syrian town of Kobani...