Jordan hanged 15 death row prisoners at dawn on Saturday, its information minister said, in a further break with the moratorium on executions it had observed between 2006 and 2014. Ten of those put to death had been convicted of terrorism offences and five of “heinous” crimes including rape, Mahmud ...
The Syrian army and armed forces units, in cooperation with the supporting forces, continued chasing the remnants of the ISIL terrorists to the east of Tadmur (Palmyra) city, inflicting heavy losses upon them. SANA reporter said that the army units carried out, during the past few hours, intensive operations on ...