Tag: Syria

ANKARA— Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey's military is working on plans to establish a "buffer zone" against Islamic militants, on...

An al Qaeda-backed militant group that seized 45 UN peacekeepers two weeks ago on the Golan Heights has posted a video in which the...

WASHINGTON- The following are key quotes from US President Barack Obama's speech Wednesday in which he outlined his strategy to "destroy" the jihadist forces...

  Saudi Arabia has agreed to host training camps for moderate Syrian rebels as part of President Barack Obama s broad strategy to combat Islamic State militants who have...

WASHINGTON— Opening a new military front in the Middle East, President Barack Obama authorized U.S. airstrikes inside Syria for the first time Wednesday night,...

BEIRUT— Syrian airstrikes targeting a stronghold of the Islamic State extremist group, including one that struck a crowded bakery, killed at least 13 civilians...

UNITED NATIONS- Militants fighting the Syrian army have detained 43 U.N. peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and trapped another 81 in the region, and...

GENEVA — The civil war in Syria has forced a record 3 million people out of the country as more than a million people...

The United States had been aware that Douglas McCain, 33, a one-time aspiring rapper and basketball fan from California, was in war-torn Syria

BEIRUT- Islamic State militants have executed Syrian army soldiers and are holding a group of them hostage after capturing an air base in northeast Syria...

The United States is poised to send spy planes into Syria to track Islamic State militants whose advances have sparked international concern and American...

BEIRUT- At least 70 Islamic State jihadist fighters have been killed in 48 hours of clashes with Syrian army troops in the northern province of...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants have carried out the killings over the past two weeks in oil-rich Deir Ezzor province which the group mostly controls

BEIRUT — Activists say Islamic militants have crushed a tribal uprising against their rule in eastern Syria following days of clashes. The armed revolt by...

Abdullah Abu Shabab fled the war in Syria to shelter in Gaza, the home his Palestinian parents lost in the 1967 war. But in the end an Israeli bomb killed him.

BEIRUT- Islamic State militants captured the key Brigade 93 Syrian army base in Raqa province overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on...

BEIRUT- At least 16 people, including two children, were killed when rebels shelled many districts of the Syrian capital overnight, a monitoring group said...