The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey border, turned out to be overwhelmingly ignorant. The extremist group could hardly have hoped for better....

Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed (Eqtsad)- Some might classify the trade in Syrian pound in southern cities of Turkey as small trade and that might be a correct classification when looking at who has the keys of this trade; however, this classification seems to be inaccurate when looking at the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A document issued by the Syrian regime called the Syrian fighters heading to Iraq as jihadists confirmed those Syrians were travelling to Iraq to fight with knowledge of the security services which used to observe and follow their movement. The...

Reoprting by Oqab Malek (Zaman al-Wasl)- Jet fighter Albatros L-39 might lead warplanes bombing resisting Syrian cities deployed mainly in Shauyrat, al-Nairb, Aleppo international military airports, source said. The source speaking on condition of anonymity said the decreasing preparedness to...