A new UN report says more than 25,000 foreign fighters from over 100 countries have traveled to join al-Qaida, the Islamic State group and other splinter groups in countries from Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan, Libya and the Philippines.
The report by a panel of experts monitoring UN sanctions against al-Qaida obtained by The Associated Press says its analysis indicates that the number of foreign terrorist fighters worldwide increased by 71 per cent between mid-2014 and March 2015.
The panel said the increased flow of foreign fighters "is higher than it has ever been historically."
It said the fighters and their networks "pose an immediate and long-term threat" and "an urgent global security problem" that needs to be tackled on many fronts.
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