DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian air force has destroyed two of three jets seized and reportedly test flown over Aleppo by the Islamic State group last week, according to the country's information minister. Omran al-Zoubi told Syrian TV late Tuesday that Syrian aircraft bombed...

A Syrian woman academic who taught jurisprudence and Islamic economics at Dammam University has joined the IS radical group, which is also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to recent local media reports. Eman Mustafa Al-Bugga reportedly stated on Twitter that...

(Writing by Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The nightmare of indiscriminate recruiting for mandatory and reserve military service has been circulating around Syria within few days. Regime started procedures of...

(Reuters) - A man and a woman have been stoned to death for adultery in separate executions in jihadist-controlled areas of Syria , a monitoring group reported on Tuesday. The man was executed in Idlib province in an area controlled by Islamist groups including the Nusra Front,...