UN: Up to 30,000 Daesh Left in Syria, Iraq

Date: 13 August 2018 - 22:02

News ID: ۵۶۲۹۵

NEW YORK (AFP) -- Between 20,000 and 30,000 Daesh fighters remain in Iraq and Syria despite the jihadist group's defeat and a halt in the flow of foreigners joining its ranks, according to a UN report released Monday.
The report by UN sanctions monitors estimates that between 3,000 and 4,000 Daesh jihadists were based in Libya while some of the key operatives in the extremist group were being relocated to Afghanistan.