13,000 ISIS fighters still in Syria, Iraq, 2,500 of them Europeans

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According to two official sources, one American and one European, that have conducted separate investigations into the current demographic of Daesh forces throughout Syria and Iraq, the terrorist group still owns a division that is equivalent to the worth of fighters and that about 20 percent are Europeans.

Also, the official US intelligence estimates that the strength of Daesh forces in Syria and Iraq is about thirteen thousand fighters. On the other hand, Gilles de Kerchove, an European Union counter-terrorism chief, believes that about 2,500 Daesh fighters are currently waging combats in these same two countries are Europeans.

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Speaking to the German-based Welt media outlet, de Kerchove claimed that Daesh forces in Syria and Iraq once possessed within their ranks about 5,000 combatant of European origin.

Of this number, de Kerchove estimates about one thousand have been killed and another 1,500 have returned to Europe.