Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 07:49
Radicalised political Islam, the reignited war in Iraq, and Syria’s prolonged and devastating civil war are fostering a level of terrorism that the world has never before witnessed. The rise of foreign terrorist fighters is a problem so acute that the UN Security Council has held an open debate on the issue and adopted a resolution aimed specifically at this new type of combatants. Some estimates count more than 15,000 foreign fighters from more than 80 nations fighting in Syria in recent years, including, according to some reports, a number of Kazakhstan citizens.
