What Do the Paris Attacks Tell Us About Foreign Fighters?
16th November 2015
Well, they’re all Muslims, for one.
U.S. counterterrorism officials reported in February that more than 20,000 foreign fighters have joined the fray in Syria to fight with the rebels, with most going to help the Islamic State. Of these, 150 or so are from the United States and over 3,000 are from the West.
According to British scholar Peter Neumann, the Syria conflict has generated more foreign fighters than Afghanistan, post-2003 Iraq, Somalia, Mali and other fields of jihad combined.
Doesn’t seem like the Obama Doctrine is helping very much.