CIA Director: Fewer Foreign Fighters Are Traveling to Syria, But U.S. Efforts Have Not Reduced ISIL’s Global Reach

CNSNews reports:

Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that U.S. efforts have not reduced the “terrorism capability and global reach” of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

“Unfortunately, despite all our progress against ISIL on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capability and global reach,” Brennan said in his written testimony.

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