KABUL: (Middle East Press) Russian Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that more than 400 Chechens have left for Syria to join the ranks of the ISIL Takfiri group since the beginning of the conflict in the country in 2011.
“A total of 405 people… have left Chechnya to join the fighting in Syria,” RIA Novosti quoted a ministry spokesman as saying.
“Among those, 104 have been killed and 44 came back, while the fate of the rest is unknown,” the official said.
Syria has been grappling with a deadly crisis since March 2011. The violence fueled by Takfiri groups has so far claimed the lives of over 210,000 people, according to reports. New figures show that over 76,000 people, including thousands of children, lost their lives in Syria last year.
Back in April, a report by France’s Senate revealed that nearly half of European militants known to have traveled to Iraq and Syria are French.
Over 1,430 French people have made their way to Iraq and Syria, representing 47 percent of militants from Europe that are known and accounted for, Senator Jean-Pierre Sueur said.
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