A good article by The Economist, it is a good read highlighting recent events in Syria: The jihadists may have gone too far From Baghdad to Beirut, a growing backlash against the most extreme of the jihadists may change the course of civil wars in Syria and IraqJan 11th 2014 | CAIRO | From the print edition IN A region of opaque politics and oddly named actors, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) lives up to its title. The group that started as an al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq has prospered there since the Americans left in 2011, subduing much of the rural, Sunni-dominated north and p