It had a big library and even an observatory where people could look ... Mathematicians in the early Islamic world like Al-Khwarizmi introduced the system to Europe. It was much simpler to use ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Islamic State militants arrested the soldiers who were escaping during the ...

Member of terror group says Ziad Nakhaleh wasn't home and building was 'empty' when struck, though war monitor reports one person killed ...

A Syria war monitor said Israeli jets struck a military site in central Syria on Tuesday, the latest such attack in recent ...

The attack came as tensions in Syria ’s coastal region between former President Bashar Assad’s minority Alawite sect and members of Islamic groups ... U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...