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NEW: An estimated 20,000 foreigners expressed interest in becoming #foreignfighters in #Ukraine -including some extremists" since #Russia invaded but evidence suggests "only a fraction...actually did so" per a new report by @FightExtremism & @KacperRekawek
#Ukraine #foreignfighter number "ranges from merely several hundreds to a few thousand" per @FightExtremism report "This is dwarfed by tens of thousands of Ukrainian volunteers who joined units in Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Force (TDF)"
Per @FightExtremism report, at least 2 violence-oriented foreign extremists who traveled to #Ukraine "have been killed in the latest round of hostilities"
"Both were on the pro-#Russia side, including one who was a left-wing extremist"
"Both were on the pro-#Russia side, including one who was a left-wing extremist"
NEW: "While we have significantly degraded the terrorist threat w/the last 20 years of sustained pressure, we still face a potent challenge" @DeptofDefense Deputy Asst Sec for Special Operations &Combating Terrorism Milancy Harris tells House lawmakers
"The terrorist threat to the US homeland from externally directed attacks is at its lowest since 9/11" per @DeptofDefense's Harris
"But we still face a number of terrorists groups committed to targeting US interests & personnel abroad"
"But we still face a number of terrorists groups committed to targeting US interests & personnel abroad"
Today's terror groups are agile, creative & "remain ideologically influential enough to motivate generations of new ppl to join them or to conduct attacks on their behalf" per @DeptofDefense's Harris
NEW: Just released @UN report warns of "heightened threats emerging" from #ISIS #alQaida affiliated groups worldwide
"This is especially true in parts of West and East #Africa" per the report, based on member state intelligence
"This is especially true in parts of West and East #Africa" per the report, based on member state intelligence
US facing expanding radicalization problem - National Counterterrorism Center acting Director Russell Travers warns during talk at @WashInstitute the number of people in the #NCTC datat base has "grown by a factor of almost 20"
@WashInstitute NEW: "We have no indication that foreign terrorists have tried to exploit" the US refugee system, per #NCTC acting Dir Russell Travers
@WashInstitute Goal should be for US to have "near real time biographic & biometric screening" to keep terrorists out of the country, per #NCTC's Travers
