Number of terrorist travellers to Syria, Iraq may be levelling off: CSIS
OTTAWA — The number of Canadians heading overseas to fight in Syria and Iraq appears to have levelled off, Canada’s spy agency says.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is not seeing the same kind of jumps in the numbers of terrorist travellers that it saw two years ago, says Brian Rumig, the service’s assistant director for operations.
“Those numbers have settled down,” Rumig said during an appearance Monday at the Senate’s national security and defence committee. “They have levelled off.”
However, Rumig cautioned the situation is fluid and figures fluctuate monthly.