Experts: Terrorist Recruitment of Foreign Fighters Poses Global Threat

Foreign fighters are flooding into Syria and Iraq in record numbers. Up to 15,000 foreign fighters from at least 81 nations are believed to be engaged in the war in those two countries.   Some analysts say it is the largest recruitment of foreign fighters since the Afghan jihad against occupying Soviet troops in the 1980's.    As in Afghanistan, most of the foreigners fighting in Syria and Iraq come from the Arab world.  But this time several thousand of them...

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