Nearly 30,000 ‘foreign terrorists’ in Syria, Iraq: UNited nations
BY Agencies6 July 2016 10:49 PM GMT
Agencies6 July 2016 10:49 PM GMT
“The number of foreign terrorist fighters is very high” in war-ravaged Syria and neighbouring Iraq, said Jean-Paul Laborde, UN assistant secretary general and head of its Counter-Terrorism Committee.
“There are nearly 30,000, and now that the territory held by Daech (the Islamic State group) is shrinking in Iraq, we are seeing them return, not only to Europe but to all of their countries of origin, like Tunisia, Morocco,” he told reporters in Geneva.
“The terrorist attacks in those countries of origin risk getting bigger and bigger to counter-balance the pressure on them” on the ground in Syria and Iraq, he said.
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