Muslims mark end of Ramadan with Eid prayers, though wars in G...

Jesuit priest Paolo DallOglio was reportedly abducted in Syria by the Islamic StateFacebook The family of a Jesuit priest allegedly kidnapped in Syria by jihadist militants with the Islamic State exactly one year ago said they were ready to mourn ...

Syria-unrest-Eid Contributed by NAMPA / AFP. Syria's Assad joins prayers to mark end of Ramadan =(PICTURE)= DAMASCUS, July 28, 2014 (AFP) - Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was given a warm reception by the faithful on Monday when he joined ...

Syrian state media have shown President Bashar Assad praying in Damascus at the start of a major Muslim holiday amid reports of an unprecedented high toll among his troops battling Islamic extremists. State TV showed Assad performing prayers in ...

Beirut (AFP) - Six children were among at least 15 civilians killed in overnight bomb attacks by government and rebel forces in the divided city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said Monday. "At least nine civilians, three of them children, were ...

BEIRUT: Islamic State jihadists, building on vast land grabs in Iraq, have seized an army position in the Syrian city of Hasakeh, a monitoring group said yesterday. On another front in Syria's complex civil war, rebels seeking President Bashar ...

- Beirut—Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate has released a video of a young US suicide bomber from Florida who blew himself up at an army post in the northwest of the country. Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, alias Abu Hurayra al-Amriki, was believed to be the ...

Islamic State fighters have seized a Syrian army base in the northern province of Raqa, killing scores of troops and beheading some of them, a monitoring group says. The takeover of the base of Division 17 came as the UN Commission of Inquiry on ...

DAMASCUS, July 27: Syrian army suffered among deadliest of weeks as 85 of its soldiers were killed, many beheaded by international terrorists, mainly of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL) which has declared part of its captured and controlled ...

Haja Fakruddin, a 37 year from Tamil Nadu, is one of ISIS's Indian fighters. Today, Indian intelligence agents tell Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com more Indians are ready to take the jihadi trip to Syria and Iraq. Parangipettai, a trading hub in Tamil Nadu, has seen Arabs, the Portuguese, the Dutch and eventually the British arrive on its shores over the course of centuries.This village, located on the Coromandel Coast, has now exported one of its sons to fight alongside the dreaded Islamic State in ...