Tag: Syria

BEIRUT- Syria´s Al-Qaeda affiliate has released a video of a US suicide bomber who blew himself up at an army post in the northwest...

Thirty-eight children have been paralysed by polio in Syria and Iraq since October 2013 and there is a high risk that the disease will...

A two-month-old baby has been rescued from the rubble in the war-battered city of Aleppo in Syria, a video tweeted shows. 'It's a miracle!' shouts...

BAGHDAD- Pictures of smiling locals, tales of life-changing experiences, articles glorifying centuries of heritage and predicting a bright future: if the “caliphate” straddling Iraq and...

BEIRUT- Syria's Western-backed opposition National Coalition elected Hadi al-Bahra, chief negotiator at the Geneva peace talks, as its new president following a three-day meeting in...

GENEVA- More than six million children affected by the Syria conflict desperately need humanitarian aid, the UN's children's agency said Friday, with the number...

LONDON   Some 100 imams are urging British Muslims to refrain from traveling to Syria amid concerns that fighters will become radicalized. The open letter issued Friday...

WASHINGTON- Airlines with direct flights to the United States have been told to tighten screening of mobile phones and shoes in response to intelligence reports...

BEIRUT- The Islamic State of Iraq and Al Sham (ISIS), now known as the Islamic State (IS), is now in full control of all...

Federal authorities in Denver have arrested a woman accused of providing material support to insurgents fighting the governments of Syria and Iraq, and of...

BEIRUT   Syrian activists say heavy clashes are underway between several rebel factions and an al-Qaida breakaway group over control of a border crossing with Iraq. The...

Children say they had fought in battles, acted as snipers, manned checkpoints, treated the wounded on battlefields, and brought supplies to front lines

DAMASCUS-   A car bomb claimed by rebels killed at least 34 people on Friday in a government-controlled village in the central Syrian province of...

BEIRUT- Activists say a car bomb has exploded in eastern Syria near the border with Iraq, killing at least five people, including a local rebel...

Fresh fighting between the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and a coalition of rebels and an al-Qaeda affiliate in eastern Syria has left at...

    Fresh fighting between the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq (ISIL) and a coalition of rebels and an Al-Qaeda affiliate in eastern Syria has left...

DAMASCUS-   Voting offices opened Tuesday in Syrian regime-held areas for a presidential election that Bashar al-Assad is certain to win, and that has been slammed...