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There is more where this came from...

Sure beyond the obviousness of this going on here you go...

Russia, Chechnya and Dagestan and others supplied 5k fighters at minimum

> - Russia: 5,000 (380 returnees)

> - Tunisia: 4,000 (900 returnees)

> - Jordan: 3,950 (250 returnees)

> - Saudi Arabia: 3,244 (760 returnees)

> - Turkey: 3,000 (900 returnees)

> - Uzbekistan: 2,500

> - France: 1,910 (398 returnees)

> - Morocco: 1,699 (236 returnees)

> - Tajikistan: 1,502 (147 returnees)

> - China: 1,000

> - Germany: 960 (303 returnees)

> - Lebanon: 900

> - Azerbaijan: 900 (49 returnees)

> - Kyrgyzstan: 863 (63 returnees)

> - United Kingdom: 850 (425 returnees)

> - Indonesia: 800 (183 returnees)

> - Kazakhstan: 600 (113-128 returnees)

> - Libya: 600

> - Egypt: 600

> - Turkmenistan: 500

Origins of foreign fighters

> Fighters include those from the Gulf Arab states, Tunisia (following its own Tunisian revolution), Libya (following the Libyan Civil War), China, other Arab states, Russia, including the North Caucasus region, and Western countries. Some jihadist groups are dominated by a single nationality, as is the case with the Caucasus Emirate (Chechens) and the Turkistan Islamic Party (Uyghurs), or the pro-government Afghan Shia Liwa Fatemiyoun.

> A 7 December 2015 report by the Soufan Group gave estimates for the number of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq by their country and region of origin based on information dated between 2014 and 2015. The study, which only included foreign fighters with ISIL, al-Nusra and other Sunni jihadist factions, listed the countries with the largest number of foreign fighters were Tunisia (6000), Saudi Arabia (2500), Russia (2400), Turkey (2100), Jordan (2000+) while the number of fighters by region was reported to be: the Middle East (8240), the Maghreb (8000), Western Europe (5000), former Soviet Republics (4700), Southeast Asia (900), the Balkans (875), and North America (289)

Russia plays multiple sides against each other within countries experiencing internal conflict, using these conflicts as a wedge to deepen its regional influence. The Middle East offers Russia many such opportunities for controlled strife.

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