Ticking Time Bomb of Fighters Returning from Syria

Rasa - With the Daesh terrorist group on the back foot after a string of military defeats, foreign volunteers for the terrorist group are returning home and creating a massive security challenge, experts said.

News ID: 423376

Date: 09 September 2016 - 22:35

RNA - These radicalized individuals, who have often received weapons and explosives training, are a "time bomb" as they flee Daesh (ISIL) and Syria and return home, France's top prosecutor said.

The risk is especially acute for France, which has been attacked in the past year by terrorists hardened from time spent with Daesh in Syria and Iraq.

"At some time or another we will be faced with the return of a large number of French fighters and their families," Francois Molins, France's anti-terrorism prosecutor, told the daily Le Monde.

"Their return represents an additional threat to our national security... We have to be prepared to fight back. It's going to be a long fight," AFP quoted him as saying.

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