The Influx of ISIS Foreign Fighters are still crawling Up Despite Offensive Strikes of U.S & Allies

The Influx of ISIS Foreign Fighters are still crawling Up Despite Offensive Strikes of U.S & Allies 

The total  number of Westerners ISIS fighters, who have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight for ISIS continues to grow Despite aggressive military as well as Western Air Strikes.

A report by NBC News quoting U.S. officials,  total number of Foreign Fighters has now reached 3,400. But the same officials hope that recent military successes against ISIS, and a series of initiatives by Western governments, will reverse that trend but wont be able to stopped it down in near future. 

United States and European countries have took right measures to keep monitoring the flow of fighters to Caliphate.  Turkish Government has applied enough pressure to slow down the inflow because Fighters are using Turkey for joining to the ISIS.

United States and European countries have took right measures to keep monitoring the flow of fighters to Caliphate

Western airstrikes, Kurdish forces have rolled back ISIS on the northern edge of the caliphate, but the Islamic State's march through the Sunni heartlands of Syria and Iraq has only been slowed, not stopped even. However, officials have yet to determine, Air Strikes by NATO or Kurdish Military offensive have done anything to slow down the influx of Foreign Fighters. 

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U.S. agencies have different views on the overall size of the ISIS fighting force in the Caliphate, with the intelligence community sticking with a range of 20,000 to 31,500 while the Pentagon thinks the number could be as low as 17,000. The intelligence community's estimate is built on reports from other intelligence agencies in the Arab world and the West. Those numbers often cover different reporting periods and can be inconsistent in their specificity. France, for example, has very specific numbers. Other countries provide very general estimates.

Source: NBC News