New ISIS recruits are seen in a classroom for their "graduation" ceremony after having completed the Islamic State special forces training program, March 27, 2015. Media Office Wilayat Khayr
IBTimes: Inside 'The Caliphate Army': ISIS's Special Forces Military Unit Of Foreign Fighters
In the year since it declared its self-styled caliphate, the Islamic State group has marketed itself as a government, a judicial institution and a religious authority, but at its core it is an army with the capability of seizing and maintaining territory. Unlike many of its other functions, very little is known about ISIS’s military structure, and the secrecy speaks to its importance. The army has allowed the militant group to quickly recruit a new generation of fighters and amass territory, and to expand from one to at least 10 countries in the past year.
WNU Editor: I recall reading the warnings and concerns of intelligence officials before 9/11 on the Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan .... and the thousands of recruits that they were training. But what Al Qaeda was doing in Afghanistan pales in comparison to what is happening now .... doubly so since there is no strategy or will from Washington or the West to confront this incredibly dangerous development. Like of these fighters are from the West .... and they are going to come back home one day.