REPORT: ISLAMIC STATE EXPANDING BY THE THOUSANDS
Originally posted on The Counter Jihad Report:
Breitbart, by FRANCES MARTEL:
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group dedicated to following the developments on the ground in the Syrian Civil War,tells Reuters that the jihadist terror group, the Islamic State (IS), has expanded by “at least 6,300″ jihadists in the past month, the fastest expansion of the organization to date.
Rami Abdelrahman, founder of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told the news outlet that this expansion significantly enhances the Islamic State’s ability to grow its activities outside of strongholds. Reuters notes that anecdotal evidence from speaking to individuals living in Raqqa, Syria–the city the Islamic State has proclaimed its capital–corroborates the large increase in Islamic State members. While as many as one thousand of these recruits are international, the majority who have been enlisted into the terrorist group are Syrian.
Reuters cites the total number of Islamic State fighters at 15,000, but estimates vary. Al…
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