BEIRUT: As ISIS tries to expand and take root across the Middle East, it is struggling in Syria – part of its heartland – where it has stalled or even lost...
BEIRUT: For Kurdish fighters, last month’s victory over ISIS militants in the town of Ain al-Arab in northern Syria was only the beginning.Their ambition is...
BEIRUT: A statement attributed to the Islamic State group claimed an American female hostage was killed in a Jordanian airstrike on Friday on the outskirts of...
BEIRUT: The ISIS hostage drama involving a veteran Japanese war correspondent and a young Jordanian pilot marks the first time the group has publicly demanded...
BEIRUT: An online message purportedly from ISIS warned Tuesday that a Japanese hostage and Jordanian pilot the extremists hold have less than "24 hours left...
BEIRUT: Russia on Monday demanded an explanation for Israeli airstrikes on two areas near Damascus, while the Syrian and Iranian foreign ministers called it...
BEIRUT: Teenagers carrying weapons stand at checkpoints and busy intersections in Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul. Patched onto the left arms of their black...
BEIRUT: For a force that has built its reputation on an aura of momentum and invincibility, the jihadist group ISIS is now dealing with a series of military...
BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad is taking advantage of the U.S.-led coalition’s war against ISIS to pursue a withering air and ground campaign...
UNITED NATIONS: Syria's foreign minister on Monday blasted the United States' "dual policy" of striking at some militants in Syria while providing money,...
NEW YORK: Thousands of miles from his ravaged homeland in the comfort and security of midtown Manhattan, Raed Saleh chokes up as he recalls some of the...
BEIRUT: A Syrian government airstrike hit a bus carrying civilians in eastern Syria Wednesday, killing at least 13 people, most of them children, opposition...
BEIRUT: Islamist extremists fired rockets and tank shells Wednesday at a major air base in northeastern Syria, kicking off a long-anticipated offensive to...
BEIRUT (AP) - As the U.S. military strikes ISIS in Iraq, Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces have significantly stepped up their own campaign against...
BEIRUT: Across the broad swath of territory it controls bridging Syria and Iraq, extremist militants from the group known as ISIS have proven to be highly...
BEIRUT: Across the broad swath of territory they control bridging Syria and Iraq, extremist militants from the group known as the Islamic State have proven to...
BEIRUT: In a reflection of how intertwined the Syria and Iraq conflicts have become, thousands of Shiite Iraqi militiamen helping President Bashar Assad crush...
BEIRUT (AP) - In the first attack to target a campaign event, a mortar bomb slammed into a tent packed with supporters of President Bashar Assad, killing 39...
BEIRUT: A spike in targeted murders of journalists in Syria landed the war-shattered country for the first time on the Committee to Protect Journalists'...
BEIRUT: Once a vibrant, religiously mixed community, Syria’s eastern city of Raqqa is now a shell of its former self, terrorized by hard-line militants...
BEIRUT: The main Western-backed Syrian opposition group demanded an investigation Thursday into an ambush by government forces that state media said killed...
GENEVA: As a human rights lawyer and longtime pro-democracy activist in Syria, Suheir Atassi once said she would never negotiate with President Bashar...
GENEVA: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov lashed out at the United States Friday, accusing it of using Syrian peace talks in Geneva for the sole purpose...
GENEVA: The first meeting meant to discuss the contentious issue of a Syrian transitional government broke up less than an hour after it began Monday...
GENEVA: Syria's government declared that its main priority was stopping terrorism - not ensuring peace - and the opposition hinted it was far from ready...