A rebel fighter stands beside an Idlib church in 2012. Photo by Javier Manzano/AFP. AMMAN: The thief was probably just a teenager—around 14 years old, Abu Elias* estimates—but his gun signaled an allegiance to one of the influential hardline Islamist brigades that had come to control much of the Idlib countryside after the early years of the Syrian uprising. Abu Elias, a Chr...