[TheWire] As the United States prepares to step up its campaign against ISIS, a new CIA report shows the radical Sunni group has at least double (and possibly triple) the number of fighters in its ranks than had previously been speculated.
The new CIA intelligence assessment was released late on Thursday in which information was culled from various reports across the summer, which as the AP reports, "estimates that the Islamic State group can muster between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria, up from a previous figure of 10,000."
| CNN has a good deal more detail here. |
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