Syria has warned that foreign-backed militants are likely to carry out a false flag chemical attack in Syria, similar to that of August 2013, to create a pretext to draw in foreign military intervention
Syrian forces have carried out their fiercest assault on the militant stronghold of Jobar in Damascus since the start of the three-year war, conducting at least 27 air strikes.
A group of Egyptian militants who had been fighting against the Syrian government have admitted that the Turkish government is working together with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and certain Lebanese groups in recruiting, training and dispatching of militant groups to Syria, an Egyptian daily reported.
Gunmen have seized Iraq's second-largest city as troops threw away their uniforms and abandoned their posts, officials said, in another blow to the authorities, who appear incapable of stopping militant advances.
More than 60 militants have been killed in violent clashes between rival militant groups operating inside Syria.
The Jordanian military is redeploying its forces along the border with Syria in light of the deteriorating security situation on the frontier, a report says.
Hundreds of school girls who were kidnapped by militant groups in Nigeria, have reportedly been sold as wives for mass marriages.
The Australian foreign minister expressed concern over the number of foreign militants fighting in Syria, stressing that it was illegal for Australian citizens to fight in the Arab country.
Car bombs have hit several mostly Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad and a town south of the Iraqi capital, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, officials say.
Ongoing clashes between anti-government militants and Iraqi soldiers near a militant-held city on Baghdad's doorstep have killed at least three people and wounded dozens more, officials say.
Militants from the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have clashed with other radical groups for control of oil facilities in Syria’s east.
The Syrian army continues its mop-up operations against foreign-backed militant groups across the country.
The Lebanese army has been deployed to the country’s border with Syria as militants flee areas captured by the Syrian army in the Qalamoun region.
Damascus says that at least seven Syrian security forces and several civilians have been wounded in a number of attacks carried out by the Israeli army from the occupied Golan Heights.
The Syrian army continues its mop-up operations against foreign-backed militants in the city of Aleppo, making more advances in the area.
A high-ranking US official says 75,000 to 115,000 militants, organized in 1500 groups, are fighting the Syrian government.
Syrian government forces have killed dozens of foreign-backed militants, seizing their weapons during an ongoing campaign across the country.
Nine people have been found dead in two brutal incidents in Iraq -- one where militants forced Shia policemen to pray before killing them, and another where decapitated heads were left in a market.
Shia Houthi fighters in Yemen have overrun the strongholds of pro-Salafi tribes following weeks of fighting, which have left scores dead.
Iraqi forces have wrested back control of key areas west of Baghdad that have been out of government hands for weeks amid a deadly standoff between militants and security forces.