The extremist group claimed responsibility for two attacks, its first against the new government since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, a war monitoring group said.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria. One of them was an attack on government forces that an opposition war monitor described as the first on the Syrian army to be carried by the extremists since the fall of Bashar Assad.

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for its first attack targeting Syria s transitional government, saying it killed or injured seven members of what it described as the apostate Syrian