A U.N. report has warned that as many as 15,000 jihadists from close to 80 different countries are flooding into Iraq and Syria to fight for ISIS and other terror groups in the mission to establish an Islamic caliphate over the region.
The report, obtained by The Guardian, did not list all countries involved, but said that some of them had previously not been involved in global terrorism.
“Numbers since 2010 are now many times the size of the cumulative numbers of foreign terrorist fighters between 1990 and 2010 — and are growing,” the report says.
“There are instances of foreign terrorist fighters from France, the Russian Federation and and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland operating together,” it adds.
Western countries, such as France and Britain, have been actively engaged in trying to stop its citizens from travelling to Iraq and Syria to fight for ISIS. Russia has also outlawed enlisting in armed groups that are “contradictory to Russian policy,” The New York Times reported in September.
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