ISIL finding it more difficult to recruit as its base shrinks
Washington Post:
Flow of foreign fighters plummets as ISIS loses its edgeIt has lost some of its appeal and is now looked at as a loser, but probably more importantly, it has been losing strategic locations that were a gateway to Europe and the US. First, the Kurds with US help took a key town in Syria that was a conduit for foreign fighters into and out of Europe. Then the Turks finally got in the fight and shut down more of the Syria border. Getting a trip to Raqqa is extremely difficult at this time.
A once-mighty current of thousands of radicalized men and women converging on Syrian and Iraqi battlefields from nations across the globe has been cut to a trickle this year as the militants' territory has shrunk and their ambitions have withered. But the decline could portend a dangerous new phase.
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