Extremists showing up on front lines in Syria

In this Saturday photo, Col. Abdel-Jabbar Aqidi, a top rebel commander for the Aleppo area, during an interview with the Associated Press, in Dwaar Al Zeytoun, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. Col. Aqidi told The Associated Press there were maybe 500 jihadis involved in the battle for Aleppo...

TEL RIFAAT, Syria (AP) — The bearded gunmen who surrounded the car full of foreign journalists in a northern Syrian village were clearly not Syrians. A heavyset man in a brown gown stepped forward, announced he was Iraqi and fingered through the American passport he had confiscated.

Published: 09/20/2012