U.S., Syria disagree on whether Syria knew about anti-ISIS airstrikes beforehand

The U.S. and several Arab allies took the battle against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) inside Syria on Monday night, and Syria and the U.S. are offering different stories on one of the big questions about the bombing raids: Did the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad know about the airstrikes beforehand? A U.S. defense official tells The New York Times that Assad's government neither approved of the airstrikes nor knew about them in advance. The Syrian foreign ministry appear...