The fighters have come from range of ethnic backgrounds include young Asians, converts to Islam and men from north African backgrounds.
This entire article epitomizes the Orwellian doublespeak that vomits forth from the Corporate Media. Aside from the usual garbage about US/NATO really isn't supporting the Al Qaeda foreign mercenaries killing Christians in Syria that the US/NATO openly supports this claptrap about Asians and North Africans are Europeans is cognitive dissonance at its most disgusting.
The same media that can’t bring itself to acknowlege that there are white africans.
From what I’ve seen when a British newspaper says “Asian” in an article about Muslims they usually mean Pakistan and Afghanistan, not Indonesia and Myanmar.