US President Barack Obama has reacted to the Russian fighter jet shut down by Turkey at the Syrian border saying Turkey has right to defend its airspace

Islamic State jihadist group has claimed an attack at a Shiite mosque south of the Iraqi capital that officials said killed at least six people.

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to suspend the American program giving Syrian refugees safe haven in the United States, a move Democrats slammed as giving in to xenophobia after the Paris attacks.

France prepared to fall silent at noon Monday to mourn victims of the Paris attacks after its warplanes pounded the Syrian stronghold of Islamic State, the jihadist group that has claimed responsibility for the slaughter.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama shook hands and chatted in a six-second encounter Sunday at a summit in Turkey, breaking the ice for the first time since Moscow launched its air campaign in Syria.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Saturday that French policy had contributed to the “spread of terrorism” that culminated in attacks claimed by the Islamic State group which killed 128 people in Paris.

A US strike on Syria that targeted British militant “Jihadi John” was “an act of self defence”, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday while acknowledging his death was “not yet certain”.

Defending Champions of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria landed in Chile yesterday with FIFA officials hailing Nigeria for their records in the youth World Cup.

Human Rights Watch on Sunday accused Russia of being behind the use of new advanced cluster munitions in Syria, by dropping them from its warplanes or supplying them to the Damascus regime.

A photo posted by the National News Agency after the arrest revealed that Mr. Al Assir had recently adopted a new look, shaving his long, unkempt beard and trading his usual religious robes and headwear for a more inconspicuous jacket and sweater. Some local news outlets suggested Mr Assir had also had plastic surgery to alter his appearance.

A charity’s video transposing the effects of the Syrian civil war onto an ordinary girl growing up in London has gone viral on the Internet.

Save the Children UK’s 94-second clip, released on Wednesday, had racked up around 14 million hits on the YouTube video-sharing website by Saturday.

At least 25 people,, were killed in regime air raids on rebel districts of the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said

An air strike on a high school killed 16 people, most of them students and teachers, in a rebel-held city in northern Syria on Sunday, a monitoring group said.

The Syrian regime has handed Russia new materials implicating rebels in a chemical attack outside Damascus on August 21, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Wednesday after talks in Damascus.

International intervention in Syria must go beyond dismantling the regime’s chemical arsenal, Saudi Arabia said Monday, in veiled criticism of a US-Russian deal that prevented Western military strikes against the Damascus.