FOX News: Almost all American ISIS fighters unaccounted for, sparking fears they could slip through cracks and return
When it came to recruiting foreigners to flee the comforts of home for the battlefields of Iraq and Syria, ISIS succeeded like no other — encouraging more than 40,000 fighters from more than 110 countries to travel to the fighting fray both before and after the declaration of the “caliphate” in June 2014. Subsequently, authorities have warned about the threat of returning jihadists to their homeland and since the falls of Mosul, Raqqa and the rapidly receding footprint of ISIS, such fears have come to the forefront.
According to a new report, “Beyond the Caliphate: Foreign Fighters and the Threat of Returnees,” released this week by the Soufan Center — a Washington-based security intelligence consultancy — there are now at least 5,600 citizens or residents from 33 countries who have returned home — accounting for about 15 percent of the fighters.
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WNU Editor: Many of these American ISIS fighters are probably dead. And those who are alive my guess is that they are probably in hiding in the Middle East knowing too well that if they return to the U.S. they would be detained and/or facing charges for war crimes committed during the war.
