article_snippet: (CNN)A group of medical students -- including an American, seven Britons and a Canadian -- may be the latest Westerners to join ISIS.
article_snippet: Last month, three teenage British girls suspected of wanting to join ISIS may have gone to Syria, authorities said.
article_snippet: three teenage British girls suspected of wanting to join ISIS fates remain unknown.
article_snippet: An estimated 3,400 Westerners have gone to join ISIS in ISIS bloody quest to establish an Islamist state in Iraq and Syria, said Nicholas Rasmussen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
article_snippet: Who has been recruited to ISIS from the West .
article_snippet: About 130 Canadian citizens have traveled to the Middle East to join ISIS, Canada's intelligence agency estimated last year.
article_snippet: About 1,200 French fighters have joined ISIS as well.  
article_snippet: Roughly 600 British nationals are believed to have gone to Iraq and Syria, according to research groups, along with another 600 from Germany.
article_snippet: In the United States, National Intelligence Director James Clapper has said 180 Americans have tried to go to fight in Syria.
article_snippet: But it's unclear how many of those were attempting to join ISIS.