Syria conflict: warplanes 'strike Damascus' Good morning and welcome to today's Middle East live blog. Here are the headlines: The Local Co-ordination Committees, a Syrian opposition group, reported air strikes in the Damascus suburb of Mleha and artillery shelling in Daraa province and Homs province this morning. The group said 113 people were killed in the Syrian conflict yesterday, including 58 in the capital. The Syrian Network for Human Rights, another activist group, said 104 people had been killed in fighting across the country yesterday, 65 of them in Damascus and the surrounding area. These reports cannot be verified because most media are banned from Syria. Hundreds of Europeans have travelled to Syria since the start of the civil war to fight against President Bashar al-Assad, the most comprehensive study of European foreign fighters to date has found. A year-long survey by King's College of more than two hundred martyrdom posts on jihadist-linked websites and hundreds of Arab and western press reports found that up to 600 individuals from 14 countries including the UK, Austria, Spain, Sweden and Germany, have taken part in the conflict since it began in 2011. The largest contingent, the study found, came from the UK with estimates of fighters running between 28-134. But European fighters made up only between 7% and 11% of the foreign contingent in Syria, which ranged between 2,000 and 5,500 people - itself a relatively small number of combatants. The Israeli military said last night that its tanks had fired into Syria in response to shots fired from Syria at an Israeli army jeep in the Golan Heights, which is occupied by Israel, the New York Times reports. Israel Israel will not sit back while Palestinian militants attack the south of the country from Gaza, defence minister Moshe Yaalon said today, hours after the military retaliated for rocket fire for the first time since an eight-day exchange of strikes in November, launching an air strike on the north of the territory. No casualties were reported. Yaalon's remarks came as two rockets fired from the coastal territory exploded at an Israeli border town, according to police. Code Red alarm sirens wailed in Sderot at about 7.30am. Israel has been accused of medical negligence by the Palestinian president and prime minister after the death of a prisoner from cancer, which triggered triggering clashes in the West Bank and protests by Palestinian inmates in at least four Israeli jails. Tunisia There will be no "Islamisation" of post-revolutionary Tunisia and the Islamist-led government has no hidden agendas or intention to monopolise power, the country's new prime minister has told my colleague Seumas Milne in Tunis. Libya Egypt, Tunisia and Libya The Arab Spring gave the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates the chance to play vital roles in the Egyptian, Tunisian and Libyan revolutions. But now the organisation has itself become the target of violent protests. So, who are these men and how did they get where they are, asks Patrick Kingsley.