Will foreign fighters test the stability of post-Assad Syria?

Will foreign fighters test the stability of post-Assad Syria?

Damascus, Syria - A group of Uyghur men laughed uproariously over a Syrian friend’s seemingly vain requests for a waiter to take better photos of them together, as they shared food at a mid-scale restaurant not far from the Syrian central bank in late October. They seemed to provoke neither fear nor much curiosity in the Syrian families dining nearby. Six months ago, the reaction would likely have been different. The issue of whether and how for…