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Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Britain’s Hammond: There are 10,000-13,000 IS fighters in Iraq
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBritish Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says there are between 10,000 and 13,000 Islamic State fighters in Iraq, Reuters reports.
He makes the comments during an address to British lawmakers.
In Syria, Hammond adds that according to UK figures, there are some 80,000 rebels who are not members of Islamic State or the Nusra Front, a radical Sunni organization affiliated with al-Qaeda and espousing a worldview not far from Islamic State’s.
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