article_snippet.sent: The panel said in the report that the scale of the problem has increased over the past three years and the flow of foreign fighters
article_snippet.sent: The panel said in the report to the UN Security Council.
article_snippet.sent: The panel noted that the ‘watch list’ in Turkey - a key crossing point to Syria and Iraq - now includes 12,500 individuals.
article_snippet.sent: And while governments are focusing on countering the threat from fighters returning home, The panel said The panel’s possible that some may be traumatised by what some saw and need psychological help.
article_snippet.sent: Others may be recruited by criminal networks.
article_snippet.sent: The panel said the fighters and their networks ‘pose an immediate and long-term threat’ and ‘an urgent global security problem’ that needs to be tackled on many fronts and has no easy solution.
article_snippet.sent: With globalised travel, The panel said, the chance of a person from any country becoming a victim of a foreign terrorist attack ‘is growing, particularly with attacks targeting hotels, public spaces and venues’.
article_snippet.sent: But The panel noted that a longstanding terrorist goal is ‘generating public panic’ and stressed that the response needs to ‘be measured, effective and proportionate.
article_snippet.sent: The panel said the most effective policy is to prevent the radicalization, recruitment and travel of would-be fighters.
article_snippet.sent: The panel noted that less than 10 per cent of basic information to identify foreign fighters has been put in global systems and called for greater intelligence sharing.