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| 15,000 foreigners from 80 countries fight for ISIS in Iraq and Syria says United Nations |
| 2014-11-02 |
| [Iraq News] On Friday United Nations revealed that about 15,000 foreigners from 80 countries are fighting within the ranks of the so-called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as the prestige and influence of al-Qaeda wanes. The report also warned about the effectiveness ISISâ online recruitment across all social media and web platforms that have been used by the organization ISIS. The United Nations said in a report published by the British newspaper the Guardian and followed by IraqiNews.com that âabout 15 thousand foreigners from 80 countries went to Syria and Iraq over the past years to fight in the ranks of organizations such as ISIS, attributing the high number to the decline of al Qaeda.â The United Nations said in its report that âsince 2010, the number of foreign jihadists in Syria and Iraq has been increased several times in comparison to the number of foreign fighters who have been counted between 1990 and 2010,â pointing out that âthe foreign terrorists fighters came from France, Russia and Britain. In the total, they come from 80 countries.â |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 johnqc 15k is the estimate of foreign fighters in ISIS 60k is an estimate of native Syrian and Iraqi fighters in ISIS |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-11-02 13:32 |
| #2 15,000 ISIL forces are a far cry from the estimate of 60,000 and growing a couple of months ago in the media. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-11-02 11:17 |
| #1 not only are the most jihadist young muslims leaving the west, they are also killing a lot of Hezbollah fighters and Iran National guard too that's the good part the bad part is that a lot of innocents in the mideast are being killed and a lot of moslems in the west are being turned into contingent jihadists ready to do damage in the west |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-11-02 08:39 |