Activist says most young men join the radical group hoping for positions in services which are granted broad security powers and attractive salaries
Reported displacement of Arabs and Turkmen in countryside of Hassakeh and Raqqa comes as part of a systematic plan to form a united Kurdish canton, religious authority says
Sources claim the Islamic State has already begun relocating fighters, heavy arms and infrastructure to Aleppo’s countryside in preparation for a withdrawal
The Islamists say the writing on gravestones is heretical
ISIS has been attacking the area from three directions: Jarablus to the west, Sarrin to the south, and Tal Abyad to the east
Free Syrian Army battalions, along with the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria entered the village of Qinayah, 4 kilometers south
