March 2015

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials are negotiating with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government for the release of a McClatchy journalist who vanished more than two years agowhile reporting in Syria, according to a French newspaper report…

Canada’s fight against Islamic State militants is entering a more complex and dangerous phase under a plan unveiled by Stephen Harper to expand air strikes to Syria. The Conservative government has tabled a motion seeking the endorsement…

eirut (AFP) - Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate and Islamist factions launched a multi-front offensive Tuesday against the regime-held northwestern city of Idlib, a monitor and activists said. At least 31 regime and rebel forces were killed in…

The Islamic State group (IS) has trained more than 400 children in Syria as fighters in 2015 alone, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor says. Calling them "Cubs of the Caliphate," the jihadist group provides intense military…

BEIRUT — Syrian rebels have launched an offensive against a major government-held city in northwestern Syria. Several armed opposition factions announced the campaign to capture the city of Idlib in a message posted online Tuesday.…

At least 400 children have joined ISIS’s ranks in Syria since the start of this year for use in combat roles, espionage and propaganda, according to monitors. Offices for “Ashbal al-Khilafah” (“Cubs of the Caliphate”) were opened in…

The Harper government may believe the extension and expansion of its anti-ISIS mission to be introduced this week is driven by "moral clarity." But if, as expected, that expansion takes Canadian bombers into Syrian skies, there is…

DAMASCUS, March 24 (Xinhua) -- In Syria, a country that has suffered greatly from the past four years of ferocious civil war and constant strife, children, who should have been comforted with hope, have been edging ever closer to…

At least 400 Syrian children have been recruited by the Islamic State since January. In the past three months, these so-called "Cubs of the Caliphate" have been indoctrinated and given military training, the Syrian Observatory for Human…

BEIRUT, March 24 (Reuters) - Islamic State has recruited at least 400 children in Syria in the past three months and given these so-called "Cubs of the Caliphate" military training and hardline indoctrination, a monitoring group said on…