The Melbourne man sent up to 10 payments to a US citizen in Syria, police allege.

The UN Security Council is reportedly scheduled to vote on whether to extend investigations into who is responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria.

Nicaragua signs the Paris agreement, leaving only two countries not supporting it.

The Islamic State militants came into the Syrian town with a hit list. By the time they left three weeks later, more than 70 civilians had been killed – shot or beheaded, their bodies dumped in farms and ditches, The Associated Press reports. The apparent revenge killings in the town of Qaryatayn underscore the ability of the extremists to inflict heavy losses even when they're in retreat – and portend more violence as they fight to hang on to their last strongholds in Syria. News of the gruesome slayings began to emerge late Sunday, after IS militants were driven out by advancing government troops. Terrified residents said they watched the slaughter from their windows or in the streets. One...

October 24, 2017 4:31 AM
MANAGUA (AFP) - Nicaragua signed the Paris climate agreement Monday (Oct 23), leaving the United States and Syria as the only two holdouts on the global climate pact.

ISIL fighters accused of conducting a revenge campaign before the capture of Al-Qaryatayn by Syrian government forces.

Syrian activists: Bodies of dozens of civilians found in town retaken by government troops, many believed killed by IS

October 24, 2017 2:13 AM
Singapore will extend to next year its existing deployment of Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) assets and personnel to the global coalition to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said.

The bodies of at least 67 Syrian civilians, many summarily killed by the Islamic State group, have been discovered in a central town in Syria that government forces retook from the extremists over the weekend, the Syrian government and activists said Monday.
A senior Syrian official described the...