“Reconsidering the Infiltration Problem”: the Origins of Foreign Fighters Destroying Syria

In the time of writing this chapter (2012), several Islamic extremist group were active in Syrian conflict, and large number of foreign fighter began to rush into the battlefield in Syria. This chapter pointed out similar background of those fighters and Mujahidun who infiltrated into Iraq to fight American occupation. The chapter also pointed out incompatibility of those Islamic extremists with “Syrian Revolution”. Later, It became obvious that main Islamic extremist group Jabhat al-Nusra was the front organization for al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq, and their activities contributed to decline the revolution. The importance of the chapter lays in revealing nature of foreign fighters in Syria at early phase through close observation to Islamic extremist’s armed organizations.