Syria

US President Barack Obama contends Israel is "safer today than ever before," says give Iran talks a chance.

Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is threatening to kill the founder of Twitter and his employees because they are blocking tweets from Daesh, known also as ISIS.

I’m not going to get into timetables. It will happen.

Candidates from the top five Israeli parties addressed Anglo voters in Jerusalem on Wednesday; the big 'hot button' was Iran and the PM's speech to Congress next week.

France seized the passports and identity cards of six wannabe jihadists on Monday who tried to travel to Syria.

Turkish military forces launched a cross-border raid into northern Syria overnight Saturday to evacuate personnel and rescue artifacts from an historic Ottoman tomb.

Netanyahu warns Iran is opening a Third Front against Israel with Hezbollah in southern Syria

A displaced Syrian activist living in Turkey says the new US plan to arm and train 5,000 moderate Syrian rebels will not be effective -- and is "not a serious effort" to help win the war against terror.

The US signs an agreement with Turkey at the U.S. Embassy to train, arm and equip five thousand moderate Syrian opposition forces.

US President Barack Obama was still unable to use the term "radical Islamic terror" on the final day of the White House conference on "violent extremism."

US President Barack Obama stresses Wednesday that America is "not at war with Islam" but "must confront the twisted ideology terrorists use to recruit" youth.

Daesh (ISIS) beheads 21 Coptic Christians at the Libyan seashore, turning the blue Mediterranean red with blood.

Former Defense Secy Leon Panetta says that he is “afraid” of the impact Israel’s PM Netanyahu will have in Congress.

Hezbollah, Assad, rebels clash in southern Syria

Rebels are worried that Assad and Hezbollah are regaining territory.

American forces were not hurt.

The brother of the hostage says he does not expect him to return.

You can’t choose your neighbors, and who would want to choose between Al Qaeda and Assad-Hezbollah?

A new day, a new surprise: the White House reveals there is at least one more American being held hostage in Syria. No further details were released.

The US joins the rest of the world in referring to ISIS as 'Daesh' at Munich Security Conference.

US President Barack Obama is backpedaling on his objectives to "destroy" ISIS -- now he'll settle for "defeat" of the terror group.

ISIS claims an American female hostage being held by the group is dead after a Jordanian air strike - but the group shows no proof.

This is the largest number of people killed in Syria in one day since the beginning of 2015.

Jordanian warplanes flew over the hometown of their fallen wing man, murdered by ISIS, to honor his memory as they returned from an unnamed "mission."

PM Binyamin Netanyahu sends condolences to Jordan over grisly murder of air force pilot by ISIS; warns Iran would give nuclear weapons to terrorists.

Jordan's first response to the barbaric murder of its pilot was swift: two Al Qaeda convicts were executed by hanging at dawn.

US President Barack Obama says the ISIS torture execution of a captive Jordanian pilot is another indication of the group's "barbarity."

ISIS claims in a new gruesome video it has burned alive its hostage, Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh.

Weapons displayed in the video are a small indication of the huge amount of arms in Syria.

Another Israeli Arab falls into the ISIS trap, runs off to Syria and then comes home to be arrested.