More than half of the world\u2019s countries are now producing jihadis to fill the ranks of violent Sunni terrorist organisations in the Middle East, according to a UN report.<\/p>\n
The al-Qaeda network and its schismatic rival, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) have seen more than 25,000 mujahideen join them in recent years, it states, creating an \u201cunprecedented\u201d\u009d threat to national and international security in both the \u201cimmediate and long-term\u201d\u009d that most governments have failed to grasp the significance of so far.<\/p>\n
The report \u201d\u201d prepared by the UN Security Council\u2019s special permanent committee for monitoring violent Islamism \u201d\u201d amounts to one of the most bleak and comprehensive assessments of the global foreign fighter phenomenon compiled yet. Its findings are based on \u201crobust and detailed\u201d\u009d evidence from 27 intelligence and security services spread across UN member states, its authors state.<\/p>\n