Daily Beast - The American-led bombing campaign is doing little to stem the tide of
foreign fighters joining the war in Iraq and Syria. Four thousand of
these fighters have joined the conflict since the allied airstrikes
began, U.S. intelligence officials tell The Daily Beast.
That’s nearly as many combatants as coalition forces claimed
to have killed, raising fears that if ISIS can continue to withstand a
sustained air campaign, it could keep its ranks restocked for years, if
not decades, to come.
“The numbers are not moving in our favor,”
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-TN) told The
Daily Beast last week, after emerging from a secret briefing at the
Capitol with retired Marine Gen. John Allen, presidential envoy in the
campaign against ISIS.
Corker added that when the strength of the U.S.-backed Syrian rebels
is compared to the fighters supporting ISIS, “we are losing now in
numbers.”
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