May 2015

(CNN) - When Islamic State captures a city, the bloodshed is hardly over, as the militants summarily execute captive fighters and residents by the dozens. In Syria, they have killed more than 250 of them in less than two weeks. At least…

BEIRUT, May 24 (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have killed at least 400 people, including women and children, in Palmyra since capturing the ancient Syrian city four days ago, Syrian state media said on Sunday. It was not immediately…

Assyrians number about 30,000 among Syria's 1.2 million Christians and mostly live in 35 villages in Hasakeh Kurdish forces have driven the Islamic State group from more than a dozen Assyrian Christian villages that the jihadists had…

Daesh has seized more than 50 percent of Syria and is now present in 10 out of 14 provinces in the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday. The reported data came after Daesh took full control of Tadmur city,…

ISIS has seized more than 50 per cent of Syria and is now present in 10 of its 14 provinces in the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday. The data came after ISIS took full control of the city of Tadmur,…

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has called for a "humanitarian cease-fire" to end the bloodshed in Syria.De Mistura met Wednesday with Iran's ambassador to the UN Mohsen Naziri-Asl in Geneva for consultations.After…

By Joyce Karam “We will be everywhere in Syria” pledged Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah to supporters who had gathered on Sunday to commemorate Lebanon’s 15th “anniversary of liberation” from Israel.…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has started training Syrian opposition fighters in Turkey to combat Islamic State, expanding a program that first launched in Jordan weeks ago, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday. The…

One of three schoolfriends is believed to have called relatives to say she is healthy and well but does not intend to return, while others made contact online   CCTV of, left to right, Amira Abase,…

Idlib province: Islamic militants targeted regime vehicle in Matram bridge near Ariha what devastated it, reports of losses in regime forces. Shells fired by Islamic battalions fell on areas of Ariha town which is under control by regime…