At least two dozen Islamic State fighters have been killed in northeastern Syria in a battle with Kurdish forces supported by U.S.-led air strikes, a Kurdish official and a group monitoring the war said on Saturday.

Some political scientists believe that Assad may use the ISIS siege of Yarmouk in his favor.

ISIS has laid siege to the capital of Syria, and controls the area just miles away from where the president sits.

Some 18,000 civilians have been trapped with limited food and water in the Yarmouk camp near Syria's capital, caught between government forces and dueling rebel groups. Their already-tenuous situation deteriorated sharply last week when ISIS launched a push to seize control of the camp from rival armed groups like the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, setting off street battles and mounting alarm for those trapped in the crossfire.

The family of British woman suspected of encouraging three London schoolgirls to join the Islamic State in Syria said that officials "failed" to stop them from leaving the country.

The defense secretary speaks to the threat of Isis

Isis posted to twitter with a threat to invade Rome and use the leaning tower of Pizza to execute homosexuals.

Isis is putting into use its child soldiers.

A new video released by ISIS on Sunday purportedly shows the terror group training children, who can be seen standing in formation, chanting, praying and participating in physical exercises. Alex Kassirer, of global security firm and NBC News consultant Flashpoint Intelligence, said the video features Al Farouk training camp for "cubs," or children, located in Raqqa, Syria.

The tomb of Suleyman Shah has been surrounded for months by militants belonging to the so-called "Islamic State", with just 40 guards holding onto the tiny pocket of Turkish sovereign land protected by international law. The operation represents the first land incursion by Turkish troops into Syria since the civil war began there nearly four years ago.

Iran wishes to extend the deadline on talks about its nuclear program. As the deadline looms and economic sanctions are still in place tensions are running high.

Saudi Arabian women hope to see the fruits of their labor in the coming year. Saudi Arabian women have been pushing for more rights within the country and protesting unfair laws, such as the right to drive a motor vehicle.

By Lee Ferran and Rym Momtaz Born from an especially brutal al Qaeda faction, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has grown from relative obscurity in recent years to overshadow its extremist patrons. It now terrorizes large swaths of Syria and Iraq, has become the target of the largest U.S.

Diana Darke returned from London to Syria recently to reclaim her house from profiteers who had moved in - she found her neighbours in Damascus coping surprisingly well despite the war.