Al Qaeda Fighters And Affiliates Are Rushing To Join The Islamic State

Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (Reuters)

Fighters Abandoning al-Qaeda Affiliates To Join Islamic State, U.S. Officials Say -- Washington Post

U.S. spy agencies have begun to see groups of fighters abandoning al-Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Africa to join the rival Islamist organization that has seized territory in Iraq and Syria and been targeted in American airstrikes, U.S. officials said.



The movements are seen by U.S. ­counterterrorism analysts as a worrisome indication of the expanding appeal of a group known as the Islamic State that has overwhelmed military forces in the region and may now see itself in direct conflict with the United States.



“Small groups from a number of al-Qaeda affiliates have defected to ISIS,” as the group is also known, said a U.S. official with access to classified intelligence assessments. “And this problem will probably become more acute as ISIS continues to rack up victories.”



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