FBI Director James Comey says it is not clear for the agency that how many Americans have successfully joined the ISIL extremists in Iraq and Syria, but he does know it’s an “urgent threat.”
The UN Security Council on Monday began fine tuning a draft resolution aimed at choking off the flow of foreign militants and financial support to terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.
It is impossible for British security forces to monitor all the estimated 500 militants fighting in Syria and Iraq after they return home, a former top intelligence official said.
American militants fighting in the extremist-marked insurgency in Syria are above a hundred, Western intelligence digits show.
Foreign militants fighting in the ongoing extremist-marked war in Syria and al-Qaeda-led war in neighboring Iraq have threatened to target their own governments after they are done with Syria.
The Syrian army has killed dozens of foreign-backed militants, including many foreigners, and seized their weapons during an ongoing campaign across the country.
A new report suggests that number of foreign militants joining Syria war to topple the government may be up to 11,000 from 70 nations, most of them fighting for al-Qaeda.
US officials are alarmed that American militants fighting in Syria war may return home threatening country’s national security.
Turkey is witnessing a rising number of people heading to the south of the country to join extremist groups in their fight against Syria which the government in Ankara has been supporting for more than two years.
US Intelligence officials say the number of Americans who have gone to Syria to join the extremist militants is rising “steadily”.
A video posted on social media shows a Qatari militant participating in making explosive devices in the vicinity of Deir el-Zour airport, east of Syria.
Russian and Syrian special services are exchanging data over reports that hundreds of foreign militants – including Russians and Americans – are fighting in Syria, a Russian foreign ministry official said in a recent interview.
Tens of foreign militants have been killed in clashes between the Syrian army and al-Nusra Front terrorists in Barzeh, Rif Dimashq, al-Alam reports.