27/05/2015

(CNN)More than 90 people -- including at least 11 children -- have been "executed" by ISIS fighters in the Syrian city of Palmyra in the last seven days, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told CNN Sunday. Many of…

A British man has been convicted of trying to join Islamic State in Syria. Zakariya Ashiq, 20, from Coventry, was found guilty of two counts of preparing acts of terrorism. The Old Bailey heard he was arrested at Heathrow in…

Agencies   PARIS: Iraq and Syria risk further division if international efforts to tackle ISIS militants there are not stepped up quickly, France’sLaurent Fabius warned Tuesday. The foreign minister, speaking ahead of a June 2…

A newly declassified document from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 2012 reveals the US government’s understanding that the policy it was pursuing in Syra would foster the rise of ISIS. As has been noted continually by critics of…

ISTANBUL—The latest opinion polls in Turkey are predicting that the ruling AK Party could lose its majority in parliament in the June 7 election. Analysts warn a significant change in foreign policy could be looming regarding Syria and the…

Four million people have left their wartorn homeland – the UK has offered shelter to just 187, leaving more to risk their lives getting here on unsafe boats or smuggled in lorries. Two of those welcomed here recount their journey …

BY JEFF STEIN Leon Panetta, the former defense secretary and CIA chief, famously gibed in his 2014 memoir that President Obama “avoids the battle, complains, and misses opportunities.” Alas, Panetta’s withering judgment is more than…

Mary Dejevsky With 25,000 foreign fighters taking part in jihadi conflict in the Middle East, the west should focus its resources on the threat from those who return   The sheer numbers are compelling. According to a…

Reef Dimashq province: Regime forces bombarded al-Hesenia and areas of Khan al-Shekh farms in western Ghouta, no casualties reported. 6 civilians including a man with his wife, were killed while others were wounded by aerial bombardment on…

Lattakia province: 4 regime forces were killed while no less than 18 others were wounded by clashes against Islamic battalions around al-Nabi Younis hill and other areas of Lattakia northern countryside, the clashes accompanied with heavy…