Reuters, 08/12 16:31 CET
By Guy Faulconbridge
LONDON (Reuters) – Syria has
become the pre-eminent global incubator for a new generation of
militants after Islamist groups more than doubled their recruitment of
foreign fighters to as much as 31,000 over the past 18 months, according
to a former British spy chief.
In the chaos of Syria’s civil war, the majority of
foreign fighters end up in militant groups like Islamic State, which
uses an extreme interpretation of Islam to justify attacks on its foes
and impose repressive rule in the swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq
that it has captured.
“The Islamic State has seen success beyond the dreams of
other terrorist groups that now appear conventional and even
old-fashioned, such as al Qaeda,” said Richard Barrett, a former head of
global counter-terrorism at Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service,
known as MI6.
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