Syrian militant sources have denied that talks have taken place between the US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford and ringleaders of the so-called Islamic Front, one of the largest extremist factions in Syria.
Hundreds of young men from Britain have joined the foreign-backed conflict in Syria, of whom "at least" four die each month, a report says.
Syrian government troops continue mop-up operations against foreign-sponsored militants on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus.
The United States has sent two detainees from the Guantanamo detention facility back to their native Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon says, the latest push in a slow-moving effort toward eventually closing the prison.
Fresh details have emerged about the twin suicide attacks against the Lebanese Army, as security sources said the perpetrators were likely linked to the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front in Syria and Salafist preacher Ahmad al-Assir.
Iranian ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Danaeifar has blamed al-Qaeda for the deadly terrorist attack against Iranian technicians in Iraq, saying that al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups are seeking to shatter cordial relationships between two countries.
At least 75 people have left Swede to fight in Syria since mid-2012, more than doubling an estimate from earlier this year, Sweden's security police, SAPO, says.
Saudi Arabia's grand mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh has branded suicide bombers as "criminals" who will go to "hell."
An Israeli former army chief says the Tel Aviv regime prefers Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to remain in power instead of terrorist groups fighting in Syria.
Masked gunmen have abducted a leading Syrian human rights lawyer and three other prominent activists in a militant-held Damascus suburb in a new sign that al-Qaida-linked militants are trying to silence any opponent.
The al-Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria have started working with crime syndicates and racketeering thugs for kidnappings, arms-smuggling, and widespread looting, an American newspaper says.
Syria’s Foreign Ministry has sent separate letters to the UN secretary general and the chairman of the UN Security Council, protesting the constant interference by Saudi Arabia in Syria's internal affairs.
A radical group linked to al-Qaeda kidnapped two Spanish journalists reporting in Syria in September and is holding them captive, El Mundo newspaper reports.
Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has warned that “toxic” proliferation of radical groups in Syria is raising the prospect of an emerging ungovernable emirate in the heart of the region.
Yemen’s military authorities have announced that most of the assailants involved in the Thursday’s attack on the country’s Defense Ministry complex were Saudi Arabian citizens.
Al-Qaeda-linked militants in northern Syria have kidnapped more than 50 Kurds in the past three days, in the second such case of mass hostage-taking since July, an opposition monitoring group says.
Six doctors, including a Venezuelan and two from the Philippines, were among 25 people killed in a suicide bombing and gun attack on Yemen's defense ministry complex Thursday, medical and security sources said.
Syrian ringleader of the anti-government militants General Salim Idris has declared that he is prepared to join government troops in the future to drive out al-Qaeda-linked extremists.
Attacks in Iraq, including a coordinated assault on security forces in the ethnically-mixed northern city of Kirkuk, have killed nine people as a surge in bloodshed showes no let-up.
Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations says many Saudis who have been either sentenced to death or life in prison are released to join foreing-backed militants fighting against the Syrian government.