content: According to Reuters, 70% of ISIS members in Syria are Syrian, not Afghanis or Iraqis.  http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/16/us-mideast-crisis-baghdadi-insight-idUSKBN0OW1VN20150616 Also, fighting between ISIS and FSA is pretty low.  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CT3x09nWsAEmOH7.jpg:large Bashar is hardly a brutal dictator. Literacy rate under his rule went up 16%, GDP was increasing exponentially, girls are free to choose whether to wear hijab or not, minority groups were protected (save for the Kurds), and he was combating corruption in the government with political, economic and constitutional reforms. Assad controls 80% of the population. 8 million internally displaced refugees decided to head to Syrian government areas. Assad is a hero who holds the State together, and fights Islamic jihad. FSA are Moderate rebels? What minority groups fight for FSA? What woman? Too find moderate Syrians, all I have to type in google search is Assad supporter. Same can't be said for jihadist rebels. Assad is saving the Syrian people from a Salafi genocide.