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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10862

8 June 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha
Council concerned at foreign fighters in Syria

Brussels, 07/06/2013 (Agence Europe) - Around 650 fighters of European origin (including 120 French fighters) are engaged in the fighting in Syria - some of them in the name of jihad.

This is what EU home affairs ministers noted, on Friday 7 June, at the end of a discussion on “foreign fighters”. New in terms of its scale, this phenomenon has not been observed to the same extent in previous conflicts, like the war in Mali or Afghanistan, stressed French Minister for the Interior Manuel...

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