Salafists Surge into Syria

A French physician who volunteers for Doctors Without Borders recently returned to Paris from the Syrian city of Aleppo. He says “at least half” the rebel fighters he treated were from somewhere other than Syria.

He worked in Idlib Province and Homs earlier this year and saw few foreign fighters, but apparently now they're all over the place.

"It's really something strange to see. They are directly saying that they aren't interested in Bashar al-Assad's fall, but are thinking about how to take...