FBI Director: More than 200 Americans have Joined or Tried to Join ISIS in Syria

World

WASHINGTON-The head of the FBI told Senate lawmakers on Wednesday that more than 200 Americans have tried to join the so-called “Islamic State” extremists in Iraq and Syria, Reuters reported.

“We estimate upwards of 200 Americans have traveled or attempted to travel to Syria to participate in the conflict,” FBI Director James Comey said in written testimony given during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.

 

“These threats remain among the highest priorities for the FBI and the intelligence community as a whole,” he added.

The FBI has repeatedly warned about the prospect of Americans growing inspired by what is called “Islamic State” in Iraq and Syria — which has an incredibly active presence on social media — and either departing to join the organization’s growing ranks or seeking to launch an attack at home.

Despite the repeated warnings by American officials against the danger of terrorism expansion, the US administration has launched a special program to train and arm terrorists in Syria who are described by Washington as “moderate opposition”.

H.M

You might also like
World

Lavrov calls for increasing urgent humanitarian aid to the Syrian people

World

Prayers in Saint Georges Patriarchal Cathedral in Bab Touma in memory of the martyrs…

World

US Private Military Companies Plunder Syrian Oil Facilities

World

All JCPOA Signatories Call for Saving the Pact, Says China

.. _copyright: Copyright ========= .. code-block:: none Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Tobias Ratschiller Copyright (C) 2001-2018 Marc Delisle Olivier Müller Robin Johnson Alexander M. Turek Michal Čihař Garvin Hicking Michael Keck Sebastian Mendel [check credits for more details] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . Third party licenses ++++++++++++++++++++ phpMyAdmin includes several third-party libraries which come under their respective licenses. jQuery's license, which is where we got the files under js/vendor/jquery/ is (MIT|GPL), a copy of each license is available in this repository (GPL is available as LICENSE, MIT as js/vendor/jquery/MIT-LICENSE.txt). The download kit additionally includes several composer libraries. See their licensing information in the vendor/ directory.