article_snippet.sent: (CNN)ISIS is a problem that is "off the charts historically" and has sent the United States into "uncharted territory" when it comes to putting down the terror group, Obama's point man in ISIS fight recently told CNN.
article_snippet.sent: This is a problem that is off the charts historically," Obama's point man in ISIS fight said, referring to the more than 20,000 foreign fighters who have gone into Syria.
article_snippet.sent: Just put that into perspective: It's about twice the number that went into Afghanistan in the 1980s over a 10-year period to fight the Soviet Union, and those came really from only a handful of countries.
article_snippet.sent: Obama's point man in ISIS fight concluded, "We're in unchartered territory here.
article_snippet.sent: Last week, Canada became the latest nation to conduct airstrikes against ISIS over Syria.
article_snippet.sent: the United States now lists 62 countries in the coalition.
article_snippet.sent: As the coalition has focused attention on Iraq and Syria, ISIS has expanded ISIS reach to Libya, Egypt and Yemen, often with existing extremist groups pledging allegiance to the militants.
article_snippet.sent: the United States has also been stepping up efforts to involve Sunni groups in the fight against ISIS.
article_snippet.sent: To date, that involvement has been extremely limited as Sunni tribes see Shiite militias, many with horrendous human rights records, take the lead.
article_snippet.sent: the Iraqi security forces put out this very perverse, twisted vision, and it's very attractive to a lot of young men around the world," the Iraqi leader acknowledged.
article_snippet.sent: But in fact, what the foreign fighters are finding in Syria and Iraq is that the foreign fighters're more likely to get killed in Iraq and Syria, and in fact, instead of getting a slave bride as ISIS in Anbar province leaders promise the foreign fighters, the foreign fighters're more likely to get killed by a female Peshmerga fighter in the streets of Kobani.
article_snippet.sent: That bottom line, the Iraqi leader assessed, could turn the tide: "The foreign fighters are learning the reality of what it's like when "The foreign fighters go to join this twisted version of a caliphate, and I think "The foreign fighters're going to see those networks begin to dry up.