Tag: Syria

Suruc - Sultan Muslim, a Syrian Kurd, had no doubt what to name her seventh child when he was born, safely in Turkey, after...

WASHINGTON- The Islamic State has become the world's wealthiest terror group, earning tens of millions of dollars a month from illegal oil sales and ransoms,...

BEIRUT- Air strikes by U.S.-led forces have killed 553 people, including 32 civilians, during a month-long campaign in Syria against Islamic State militants, a Syrian...

Local Kurdish govt in Iraq’s north confirms weapons deliveries and expresses gratitude to Washington

BEIRUT- Islamic State group jihadists have executed a man in northern Syria they accused of filming their headquarters and displayed his body on a cross,...

LONDON- British police are carrying out security investigations at an "exceptionally high" pace not seen in years to disrupt potentially deadly plots directed from abroad,...

TEHRAN- Iran hit back Tuesday at demands from Saudi Arabia that Tehran withdraw its "occupying" forces from Syria and insisted no country was more...

Saudi FM says ‘our reservations are about Iran's policy in the region, not about Iran as a country or people’

The US armed forces have carried out six more airstrikes on the Islamic State (IS) strongholds in Syria, concentrated around the northern Kurdish city...

The United States (US)-led coalition destroyed three makeshift oil refineries in jihadist-controlled territory in Syria early on Sunday as it pressed efforts to deny...

BEIRUT- 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...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. and five Arab countries launched airstrikes Monday night on Islamic State group targets in eastern Syria, and the U.S. undertook a...

It was not immediately clear what the attacks were targeting but an activist in the area said there were no rebel fighters near the positions they struck.

BEIRUT- At least 42 civilians including women and children have been killed in Syrian government air strikes on rebel-held territory in the country's northwest, a...

CAIRO- A renowned jihadi ideologue on Saturday urged the Islamic State group to release British aid worker Alan Henning, saying Islam forbids harming non-Muslims who...

LONDON— British Muslim leaders made a plea Thursday for the safety of a British hostage threatened with beheading by Islamic State extremists in Syria. Alan...

At least 48 people including rebel fighters have been killed in Syrian government air bombardments around a town in the central province of Homs,...