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Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:27 PM

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) jokes with United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (R) prior to the Geneva-2 peace talks in Montreux January 22, 2014. Syria's government and opposition, meeting for the first time, angrily spelled out their mutual hostility on Wednesday at a U.N. peace conference where world powers also offered sharply divergent views on forcing out Bashar al-Assad. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT)

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:22 PM

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) talks to Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal prior to the Geneva-2 peace talks in Montreux January 22, 2014. Syria's government and opposition, meeting for the first time, angrily spelled out their mutual hostility on Wednesday at a U.N. peace conference where world powers also offered sharply divergent views on forcing out Bashar al-Assad. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT)

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:21 PM

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) talks to Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal prior to the Geneva-2 peace talks in Montreux January 22, 2014. Syria's government and opposition, meeting for the first time, angrily spelled out their mutual hostility on Wednesday at a U.N. peace conference where world powers also offered sharply divergent views on forcing out Bashar al-Assad. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT)

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:15 PM

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) talks to Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal prior to the Geneva-2 peace talks in Montreux January 22, 2014. Syria's government and opposition, meeting for the first time, angrily spelled out their mutual hostility on Wednesday at a U.N. peace conference where world powers also offered sharply divergent views on forcing out Bashar al-Assad. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT)

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:14 PM

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) talks to Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (2nd L) as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (R) walks past prior to the Geneva-2 peace talks in Montreux January 22, 2014. Syria's government and opposition, meeting for the first time, angrily spelled out their mutual hostility on Wednesday at a U.N. peace conference where world powers also offered sharply divergent views on forcing out Bashar al-Assad. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST)

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:12 PM

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) stands beside as Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (2nd L) is welcomed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (R) prior to the Geneva-2 peace talks in Montreux January 22, 2014. Syria's government and opposition, meeting for the first time, angrily spelled out their mutual hostility on Wednesday at a U.N. peace conference where world powers also offered sharply divergent views on forcing out Bashar al-Assad. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT)

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:47 PM

File photo of Free Syrian Army fighters walking through dust after a tank shell exploded outside a Syrian Army base during heavy fighting in the Arabeen neighbourhood of Damascus February 3, 2013. Thousands of young men have left European countries to join Islamist rebels fighting in Syria. Not only are the numbers growing as the conflict drags on and President Bashar al-Assad's forces appear to be getting stronger, but those leaving are getting ever younger. Some are as young as 15 or 16. Experts at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) estimate the number of foreign fighters to have joined Islamist rebel groups fighting Assad's forces to be around 8,500, including almost 2,000 from Western Europe. TO GO WITH STORY SYRIA-CRISIS/EUROPE-JIHADISTS REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/Files (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)