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WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters
It has been reported that as many as 20,000 foreign fighters have joined militants in the Middle East and that they make up around 10% of ISIS. Wesley Stephenson and Federica Cocco look at the numbers behind those claims and examine where those fighting in places like Syria and Iraq come from.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news: are they always reliable?