Islamic State Fighters And Their Families Are Now Trying To Flee Syria and Iraq

Raqqa, Syria, one of Isis’s centres of power, is slipping further into the hands of US-backed Kurdish forces. Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

The Guardian: Hundreds of Isis defectors mass on Syrian border hoping to flee

Several dozen former fighters have already crossed into southern Turkey in recent weeks as terror group loses territory

Hundreds of defectors from Islamic State have massed in Syria’s Idlib province, with many planning to cross the nearby Turkish border and find ways back to the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

Several dozen former fighters have already made it across the heavily patrolled frontier to towns and cities in Turkey’s south in recent weeks, the Guardian has confirmed. Four Saudi Arabian extremists arrived in a southern Turkish community in early September after paying smugglers $2,000 each for the perilous journey past border guards who have shot dead scores of infiltrators this year alone.

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WNU Editor: This is going to help them escape, and one more worry for intelligence and security officials in the West .... ISIL holds 11,100 blank Syrian passports: report (Al Jazeera).