Foreign-backed militants in Syria have kidnapped at least 120 Kurdish civilians from a village in the northwestern province of Aleppo, a foreign-sponsored rights group says. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights with close links to the militants said on Friday that the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) extremists ...

Kurds are becoming a bigger trigger in Syria and across the region, including Iraq and Iran, President of the International Strategic Studies Association, Gregory R. Copley, told RT. He added that Saudi Arabia is an unfortunate player in the Syrian war. Copleys comments come after Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists kidnapped at least 120 Kurdish civilians ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Terrorists 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, a monitoring group said Thursday. The kidnappings come months into major battles for control of several parts of Northern Syria that have pitted Kurdish fighters against terrorists, chiefly ...