Today's Wild Geese: Foreign Fighters in the GWOT

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http://www.economist.com/news/middle...f-hot-here-mum

Within this long article - with many points made - is this table:

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Nice graphic via WaPo:http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...washingtonpost

An estimated 15,000 militants from at least 80 nations are believed to have entered Syria to help overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad according the CIA and studies by ISCR and The Soufan Group.

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Nice graphics indeed.

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From ICSR a short commentary after an official German publication, which they explain as:

The German security authorities recently published a new study that brings together information on 677 individuals who departed Germany for Syria or Iraq before June 30, 2015.

The analysis is based on data provided by the German police and domestic intelligence agencies both at the federal and state level. It was jointly conducted by the Bundeskriminalamt (the Federal Criminal Police Agency), the Bundesamt fr Verfassungsschutz (the Federal Domestic Intelligence Service), and the Hessian Centre of Information and Expertise on Extremism, and released by the Permanent Conference of the Ministers of the Interior of the Lnder.
According to the German authorities, more than 800 people have left Germany for Syria or Iraq since the beginning of the Syrian conflict, though it is not possible to verify that they all reached the region. Around one third of the departees is known or assumed to have returned to Germany, of whom 70 are thought to have experienced armed combat with Islamic State, or at least undergone military training. About 130 Islamists from Germany are presumed to have been killed in the conflict.
This ICSR Insight highlights some of the other findings.

Link:http://cache.nebula.phx3.secureserve...ZhMmJkYmY6Ojo6