Aside from making money, ISIS seeks controls over certain energy resources as way to cripple its opposition, including the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

Since the Syrian uprising began in March 2011, several Islamist and jihadist groups have entered the fray. The Islamist groups range from relatively moderate factions aimed at establishing Sharia ...

Syria has submitted a "more specific" list of its chemical weapons to the global regulator overseeing the destruction of its stockpile after discrepancies were reported by inspectors on the ground ...

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is introducing a sense of the Congress resolution that would require the Obama administration to provide a detailed explanation of why it needs to attack Syria, which Nu… ...

MOSCOW - Russia says it's working on the details of its proposal for Syria to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling.

A map shown by the Russian military on state television appears to show that some Russian artillery contingents could be operating on the ground in central Syria’s Homs region. Russia has ...

ISIS also took over the central Syrian city of Palmyra recently, giving the group control of key gas fields that serve as the "hub between the extraction or transfer of virtually all of Syria's ...

Expert Aaron Zelin tweeted this map, apparently from ISIS precursor Al Qaeda in Iraq (ISI) in 2006, that hammers home the oil strategy: Aside from making money, ISIS seeks controls over certain energy ...

This detailed Syria map shows what territory ISIS is truly fighting for Advertisement Pamela Engel Jun 30, 2015, 22:38 IST ...