One result is that over the last six months the number of foreign terrorist fighters hasn’t grown, he said, but the fact that they’re not traveling “does not mean that the potential threat of those who would have traveled is diminished.”
Schoof said military operations to oust the Islamic State from its self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq are scattering the extremist group’s fighters and supporters.
There are probably 4,000 to 5,000 European foreign terrorist fighters in Iraq and Syria, Schoof said.
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