The Washington Post
By: Griff Witte, Sudarsan Raghavan & James McAuley

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The flow of foreign fighters to the ranks of the Islamic State — once a mighty current of thousands of radicalized men and women converging on Syrian and Iraqi battlefields from nations across the globe — has been cut to a trickle this year as the group’s territory has shrunk and its ambitions have withered…

As of December, up to 31,000 people from at least 86 countries had traveled to Syria or Iraq to fight alongside the Islamic State or other extremist groups, according to a comprehensive analysis by The Soufan Group, an international security consulting firm…

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To download a full copy of the “Foreign Fighters: An Updated Assessment of the Flow of Foreign Fighters into Syria and Iraq” report please click here.

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