BEIRUT (Reuters) - Militant Islamist groups in Syria are recruiting children as young as 15 and sending them into battle after promising them a free education, a Human Rights Watch report said on Monday. The report said the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which...

BEIRUT (AP) — An al-Qaida breakaway group's seizure of territory in Iraq and Syria has sent tremors across the Middle East, jolting neighboring countries into action over fears that the Islamic militants may set their sights on them next. In Jordan, the army dispatched...

(AFP)- Israel carried out retaliatory air raids on Syrian army positions in the Golan Heights overnight after a teenager on the Israeli side was killed in an attack from Syria, the army said early Monday. "The IDF (Israeli army) targeted nine Syrian army positions in response...

Syrian Parliament Member, Ali al-Sheikh, Sunday killed when an Islamist rebel group detonated his car in central Damascus, rebel statement said. The media center of The Islamic Union of Levant Soldiers, based in Eastern Ghouta, said the operation had...