http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/world/middleeast/foreign-fighters-expand-terrorist-groups-panel-says.html 2014-11-01 04:19:59 Foreign Fighters Expand Terrorist Groups, Panel Says A new United Nations report says the world is facing a challenge posed by foreign fighters who are joining terrorist groups on an “unprecedented scale.” === A new United Nations report says the world is facing a challenge posed by foreign fighters who are joining terrorist groups on an “unprecedented scale,” with about 15,000 in Syria and Iraq alone. “Numbers since 2010 are now many times the size of the cumulative numbers of foreign terrorist fighters between 1990 and 2010 — and are growing,” says the report by a panel of experts monitoring