A UN report says significantly more foreign jihadists have been estimated as Syria and packed in Iraq in recent years. The air strikes it does not keep from.
The influx of jihadists to Syria and Iraq can not after – rather, it takes even further: The United Nations warned in a recent report warning that potential fighters flow into “previously unknown magnitude” in the two countries, the militia of the “Islamic State” to support (IS) and other extremist groups. The reported the British newspaper “Guardian”.
The UN report says, so it writes the “Guardian”, so far 15,000 people to Syria msotly Bosnian muslims, Kosovian Albanians, and Iraq come to fight with the IS and other jihadist organizations. The extremists control large parts of Syria, also in neighboring Iraq they control large areas. The current number of fighters goes well beyond previous estimates. The paper was prepared by a committee of the Security Council, which deals mainly with al-Qaeda.
“The number since 2010 exceeds several times the magnitude of the cumulative numbers of foreign terrorist fighters between 1990 and 2010 – and it is growing,” said cited the “Guardian” from the report.
The “Washington Post” reported similar alarming figures based on information from US intelligence. Thus, even around a thousand foreign jihadists would seep month, the newspaper writes.
The voluntary jihadists come from more than 80 countries, “including a group of states that no conflicts in the context of al-Qaeda had been”, says the UN report. Also from Germany, several hundred jihadists have joined the active fighters.
The United Nations raise the question, which has enormous consequences of feed especially for the IS for the terrorist organization al-Qaeda. Their leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had IS separated from his group. Zawahiri “seems to try to counteract the loss of importance”, says the report.
IS Iraq And Syria:UN regional plans ceasefire zones
Meanwhile announced the UN, lay with regional ceasefire zones the foundation for a peaceful solution in the civil war-torn Syria. “In these areas, we can first begin a political process at the local level and finally at the national level,” said the UN special envoy to the war-torn country, Staffan de Mistura, on Thursday before the Security Council in New York.
The situation in Syria is unclear. Militias fight not only the regime, but they also fight each other. For example, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) supports the Kurds in Kobane in their fight against the IS. The besieged northern Syrian city is now regarded as a symbol of resistance against the jihadists. After a long wait met there on Thursday and the first Kurdish fighters from the Northern Iraq. This will help the city’s defenders push back the IS.
The Turkish government had given in the past week, the permission that the peshmerga have happened on the way to Kobane Turkish territory. However, Ankara has trouble using the Kurdish people in Kobane protection units, as these are linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK. The PKK is banned in Turkey as a terrorist organization.
The IS can be fought so effective. The Swede named Aleppo as a possible first of these so-called Freeze Zones, but did not say how a ceasefire can be implemented.
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