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....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source disclaimed circulated news in the media about Russia establishing a new military base in Palmyra airport following recapture of archeological city from Islamic State. The source told Zaman al-Wasl the rumors are incorrect confirming the Russians established a...

The world community has yet to find an adequate response to cultural destruction as shown by the deliberate wrecking of ancient sites in Syria and Mali by Islamist radicals, the head of the UN's cultural organization said. Irina Bokova, director general of the United Nations Educational...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Major General Jayez Rayan al-Musa, the military commander of the brutal aerial campaign on northern province of Aleppo and regime’s Air Force Chief of Staff, can be ranked as one of the regime's savage officers. The Sunni General who could only assume this post after he...