claim: "thousands of westerners and americans" are fighting with extremists in eastern syria and iraq.
author: mike rogers
evidence_1: sep 1, 2014 ... the two young men in the bus from antakya, in south-eastern turkey, to  reyhanli, nearer the border with syria, sported long beards, calf-length trousers  ... the effect of the swelling influx is apparent as the islamic state (is), a brutal  extremist group in syria and iraq that has attracted most foreign fighters, ...
evidence_2: oct 29, 2015 ... the story of isis teaches the same basic lesson that emerged from america's  other failures in the middle east over the last decade: attempts by the united .....  russia's recent military intervention in syria—nominally to fight the extremists,  but more to prop up a government that protects russian interests—is ...
evidence_3: jun 17, 2014 ... how isis and other jihadists persuaded thousands of westerners to fight their  war of extremism. by terrence mccoy by ... challenging many western  stereotypes, the faces behind the masks of thousands of the jihadists fighting to  overthrow the iraqi and syrian regimes are, in fact, western. 2:39. abu bakr ...
evidence_4: mar 24, 2016 ... the number of foreign fighters from western europe has more than doubled  since june 2014, while it has remained relatively flat in other regions such as  north america. the uk has seen an estimated 760 jihadists travel to syria and  iraq. some estimates say that half of these have returned to the uk, while ...
evidence_5: fighters include those from the gulf arab states, tunisia (following its own  tunisian revolution), libya (following the libyan civil war), china, other arab  states, russia's chechnya and north caucasus region, and western countries.  estimates of the total number of foreign sunnis who have fought for the syrian  rebels over ...