At least 90 Assyrian Christians have been kidnapped by ISIS militants from villages in north-eastern Syria, activists say. The Syrian…
A Turkish military convoy have entered into northern Syria and evacuated a historic Ottoman tomb and the soldiers guarding it.…
An American female hostage has been killed in a Jordanian air strike in Syria, Islamic State (ISIS) militants have said.…
Lebanon has imposed stricter conditions for Syrians entering the country in a bid to slow the flow of asylum seekers…
Pope Francis has delivered his second "Urbi et Orbi" - to the city and the world - Christmas message, highlighting…
The UN has appealed for a record $16 billion to fund its humanitarian operations in 2015, with almost half the…
Syria has accused Israel of carrying out two airstrikes near Damascus. Israeli planes bombed the area near Damascus international airport…
Thirteen people suspected of radicalizing young people and recruiting them to fight in Syria have been arrested by Austrian police,…
According to new reports, at least 553 people are said to have died in a month in the Kurdish town…
The US and Arab allies’ airstrikes have hit four makeshift oil refineries under Islamic State (ISIS) control in Syria, as…
US-led airstrikes have destroyed four ISIS-held oil tanks and damaged another during a fourth night of bombardments in Syria. The…
New US and coalition airstrikes have targeted ISIS-held oil refineries in Syria. The raids killed 14 ISIS fighters and five…
The US and five Arab allies - Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - have launched…
Turkey has decided to close some of its border crossings with Syria after about 130,000 Kurdish refugees entered the country…
According to Turkish officials, some 45,000 mainly Syrian Kurds have crossed into Turkey in the past 24 hours as Islamic…
President Barack Obama's plan to train and arm the moderate Syrian opposition fighting on Islamic State (ISIS) has been approved…
The Islamic State (ISIS) militant group may have up to 31,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria - three times as…
President Barack Obama has announced that the US will not hesitate to take action against Islamic State (ISIS) militants in…
President Barack Obama has authorized surveillance flights over Syria in order to gain intelligence on the activities of Islamic State…
A caliphate is an Islamic state ruled by a single political and religious leader, or Caliph. Caliphs are regarded by…
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has called on Muslims to obey him, in his first video sermon. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi…
ISIS militants have announced they are establishing a caliphate, or Islamic state, on the territories the Islamist group controls in…
Iraq’s PM Nouri al-Maliki has confirmed that Syria carried out air strikes on ISIS militants inside Iraqi territory this week.…
Iraq’s government has lost control of its western borders after Sunni militants reportedly captured crossings to Syria and Jordan. Officials…
According to the UN refugee agency, the number of people forced to flee their homes because of war or persecution…