Foreign Jihadists are pouring into the interlocked conflicts in Syria and Iraq at “an unprecedented scale”, according to a United Nations Security Council Report.  And they’re coming from countries that were not previously associated with providing militants for global terrorism.

The report says at least 15,000 people from more than 80 countries have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside the Islamic State (IS) and similar extremist groups.  The report did not detail from which countries the militants had traveled, but IS propagandists take pains to point out members from the west, Australia, the Maldives, and even one Chilean-Norwegian.

“There are instances of foreign terrorist fighters from France, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland operating together,” the report states.

Just sayin’, if they want to break up that cooperation, all they have to do is to start introducing football scores in the middle of IS’ communications.  Amirite?

These increased numbers support similar estimates from US intelligence that say more than a thousand foreign fighters stream into Syria every month, or more than 16,000 already in Syria.  And that rate is so far unchanged by the US and allied air strikes on IS targets in Syria and Iraq.