TY  - RPRT
A1  - Khatib, Hakim
T1  - How many foreign fighters are In Syria
T2  - sicherheitspolitik-blog.de
N2  - It is estimated that a number between 27,000 and 31,000 foreign fighters have been flocking to Iraq and Syria since the breakout of the war in 2011.
An updated assessment of the flow of foreign fighters into Syria and Iraq shows that there is a significant increase in the number of foreign fighters travelling to Syria. Data provided by the Soufan Group in 2014 estimated that the identifiable number of foreign fighters is approximately 12,000 from 81 countries. It was also believed that the number of foreign Jihadists coming form Western countries does not exceed 3000: “Around 2,500 are from Western countries, including most members of the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand”, according to Soufan’s initial report on Foreign Fighters in Syria. Now the number exceeds 27,000 foreign fighters from at least 86 countries...
KW  - foreign fighters
KW  - islamic state
KW  - jihadism
KW  - Syria
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41756
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-417561
UR  - http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2016/10/24/how-many-foreign-fighters-are-in-syria/
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