Syria

'My only concern was that our story gets told'

Says Lebanese guerrilla group's leader ordered shelling across Golan

Is the US implementing a two–faced policy in Syria?

The declaration comes four days after US-backed Kurdish-led forces recaptured the Syrian city

Kurdish groups working hard to give Arabs role in Raqqa but city falls outside Kurdish-dominated regions of north

The overall number of dead is higher if you include those targeted by Russian and Syrian strikes

Turkish troops entered Idlib on Thursday night as part of efforts to enforce a 'de-escalation zone'

Syria agreed to destroy its chemical weapons in 2013 under a deal brokered by Russia and the United States

Islamic State may have exported some of the wheat

Socceroos win 3-2 on aggregate to enter final play-off, probably against Panama

Move comes as Turkey along with Russia prepares to set up a so-called 'de-escalation' zone in Idlib

Russia said on Wednesday it had critically injured a leader of the Tahrir al-Sham militant group

War-torn country face Australia in first-leg regional play-offs in Malaysia on Thursday

The visit reflects a rapid deepening of ties between the two countries

Attack came after Russia's military intelligence uncovered the time and place of a meeting of the leaders

The militant group is now on the verge of being ousted from its Syrian stronghold Raqqa

The United States has focused its Syria operations on fighting rebel militants like Islamic State

Militants targeted the station in the al-Midan neighbourhood and clashed with police officers

In 'Dear World', eight-year-old Bana Alabed delivers an unadulterated account of war through the eyes of a child

The militants took control of Al-Qaryatain which was home to some 30,000 people before Syria's war broke out in 2011

Four children were among the dead in the overnight strikes

The attacks come a day after IS released what it said was an audio recording of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

'Russia has been trying to abstain from taking a clear stance on the issue'

He also called for attacks on the Western media

Russia's defence ministry says it is attacking hard-line militants

British-based monitor said on Monday that Russian strikes killed 37 civilians including children in northwestern Syria

Russian bombing in Idlib had killed civilians and moderate rebels, criticised Turkish Foreign Minister

Valeri Assapov was killed when a shell exploded during shelling by IS fighters near Syrian city of Deir Ezzor

The de-escalation plan has eased fighting in parts of western Syria between rebel factions and government forces

Syrian issue dwarfed by the crises over North Korea and the Iran nuclear deal

'We cannot be stopped'

Kurds have never lived under single, centralised power

Government troops broke crippling militant siege of Syria's Deir Ezzor

Israel indirectly warned it would do everything to prevent any "Shia corridor from Tehran to Damascus"

UN investigators said they had documented 33 chemical weapons attacks to date

The extremist group has already lost more than half of its nearby bastion of Raqqa

Paris had been a key supporter of the opposition to Assad's rule since the start of the conflict in 2011

A US-led coalition is seeking to oust Islamic State from Raqqa

Head of the Deir al-Zor military council said assault might begin "within several weeks"

The UNs is still assessing the outcome of talks held this week in Riyadh between the three Syrian opposition groups

Six years of conflict have ravaged Syria and displaced more than half of its population

With help of Russia and Iran, Damascus has shored up its rule over much of the country's populated west

Divisions across political, religious, ethnic lines will again rise to surface in Iraq

Donald Trump's administration announced it was ending Washington's four-year programme to back rebels

The video, was widely shared on social media and could not be independently verified yet

Russian personnel on July 21 and 22 established two checkpoints and 10 observation posts along the boundaries

American and Israeli role in backing terrorist groups fighting against the Syrian government is an open secret

"What they want is only women and sex. It's disgusting," says Rahma, a former ISIS bride

Ostensibly the two are to talk Syria and counter-terrorism

Much of Mosul in ruins, thousands dead and wounded and nearly half the city's population forced from their homes