(Reuters) - Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said on Friday, saying it was the first time that the militant group had taken to the air. The group, which has...

( Davidson Website )- Like thousands in her home country of Syria, artist Etab Hreib is intimately familiar with the consequences of violent conflict – her son was recently arrested and imprisoned by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and her house in Syria robbed. Hreib, who grew...

(Reporting by Maher Radhwan; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) HOMS (Zaman Al Wasl)- Sugar production in Syria fell to less than a fifth this year compared to 4 years ago, 250 thousand tons of sugar beet were processed, it was the lowest in 50 years....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dusty and remote, the Syrian city of Kobani has become an unlikely spoil in the war against Islamic State militants — and far more of a strategic prize than the United States wants to admit. Perched on Turkey's border, the city of about 60,000 has...