Tag: Levant

ISIS has executed 19 civilians in Syria, including two children, human rights activists have claimed today. The executions are said ...

Standing at the gate of his house in Iraq's war-torn city of Mosul, Muwaffaq al-Obeidi watches as waves of displaced ...

The Islamic State group killed more than 50 people in an attack on two government-held villages in central Syria's Hama ...

The exodus of civilians from the battleground city of Mosul has reached an unprecedented level, leaving aid agencies struggling to ...

When they grabbed the microphone in Beirut this week, Lea boldly declared she preferred women to men, but Joseph recounted ...

Fear and hunger are driving an ever-growing number of Iraqi civilians into a camp in Hammam al-Alil, where they share ...

Islamic State jihadists established a caliphate in 2014 after seizing a large swathe of territory in Iraq and Syria, but ...

Syria's regime is close to cementing its control over the entire capital under local deals with rebels after a six-year ...

"Three, two, one, action!" shouts Syrian refugee Mostafa Abdallah, 11, energetically directing his fellow child actors in a musical being ...

More than 1,200 people including rebels left two opposition-held districts of Damascus on Friday under an agreement that will bring ...

In the battle against jihadists in northern Iraq, the village of Sayramun was recaptured in February but remains as isolated ...

With hostilities subsiding on Syria's western battlefronts, President Bashar al-Assad's army is seeking to head off US-backed forces fighting jihadists ...

Syrian government forces have gained ground in a rebel-held district of Damascus as part of the regime's efforts to push ...

Jihadists preparing for a desperate last stand in Mosul are booby-trapping homes with civilians inside and welding doors shut on ...

It was the second deadliest conflict in the world last year, but it hardly registered in the international headlines. As ...

Iraqi forces announced on Tuesday they had retaken yet another neighbourhood of western Mosul, tightening the noose around jihadists holed ...

Negotiations were under way on Sunday on evacuating insurgents and their families from two districts in Damascus, a Syrian military ...

The first blast came from a package that was being delivered by a man on a motorcycle At least two ...

Fighting subsided in Syria on Saturday after a deal signed by government backers Russia and Iran and rebel supporter Turkey ...

Russia, Iran and Turkey have signed a deal calling for safe zones to be established inside Syria so that refugees ...