Jihadist assault on Syria kills 74: monitor

BEIRUT: ISIS militants have entered a key military base in eastern Syria, killing at least 50 soldiers in an ambush while launching their first coordinated, multifront attack on government forces, an anti-regime monitoring group said Friday. The ...

By Madeleine Albright & David Miliband The Middle East suffers a new trauma every week. Iraq is disintegrating, as the Syrian conflict crashes across its borders. Gaza is in flames, as long-term neglect takes its toll. No wonder it seems difficult ...

BEIRUT: As militants from ISIS establish themselves as the dominant force in the fight for oil and gas resources among rebel factions within Syria and Iraq, they are reaping windfall profits and confronting a series of constraints on their newly ...

The militant group that calls itself the Islamic State have begun a new round of fighting with the Syrian regime, surrounding a base outside its stronghold in Raqqa and launching offensives in Aleppo province and Kurdish regions. The death toll in ...

KALYAN: Two of the four Kalyan youths suspected to have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) called up their families earlier this week and confirmed they were working as members of the militant Sunni Islamist group in the Raqqa ...

Syria-conflict-clashes-jihadist Contributed by NAMPA / AFP. Syria regime-jihadist clashes kill dozens: watchdog BEIRUT, July 25, 2014 (AFP) - Dozens of people have been killed in 24 hours of clashes in northern Syria between regime forces and ...

at 11:11 am EST Click Ticker to See live coverage GlaxoSmithKline plc (ADR) ( GSK ) was again accused for corruption, this time in Syria, after a series of claims in countries from China to Poland had surfaced in the last little while. The ...

OSLO (Reuters) - A group of militant Islamists planning to carry out attacks in the West is on its way from Syria, possibly heading towards Norway, police said on Friday. Norwegian armed police were deployed for a second day at high-risk locations ...