Last week fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, entered a village in Idlib province in the north-west of the country and shot dead at least 20 villagers from the Druze community. They had earlier forcibly converted hundreds of Druze to their fundamentalist variant of Sunni Islam. The incident happened in the Druze... Read More

…here’s today’s headline from the Los Angeles Times print edition For the webversion, the LAT went with the more conventional and presumably more accurate presentation: Syrian radicals of the non-Islamist extremist persuasion can, I suppose, breathe a sigh of relief that they do not occupy the “kill on sight� overlap region of the Arab/radical/Islamist extremist... Read More