Foreigners join fight against ‘apostate’ Syria regime

Foreigners join fight against ‘apostate’ Syria regime: In restive northwest Syria, the uprising has found an unlikely new partner in the struggle against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad: foreign Islamists who are joining the fight. But rather than adopt the revolt’s calls for democracy and the fall of a dictatorial regime, such jihadists believe the minority Alawite sect -- an offshoot of Shiite Islam to which Assad’s family belongs -- are “apostates” and need to be fought and overthrown. At the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, seized by the rebel Free Syrian Army last week, dozens of men claiming to