Congressional Report: U.S. has 'failed' to Stop Flow of Foreign Fighters to ISIS

The U.S. is losing the battle to stop Americans from traveling abroad to enlist in ISIS, a bipartisan congressional task force concluded in a report released Tuesday.

The determination came out at the same time that President Barack Obama was chairing a U.N. summit on countering violent extremism, in which he stressed America's successes in combating ISIS even as he acknowledged that more needed to be done on this "very difficult challenge."

More than 25,000 foreigners have flocked to war-torn Syria and Iraq since 2011 to fight with Islamist terrorist groups including ISIS, according to U.S. government estimates noted in the report.

"Despite concerted efforts to stem the flow, we have largely failed to stop Americans from traveling overseas to join jihadists," the task force determined in its report.

In just the last nine months, more than 7,000 foreign fighters have swelled the ranks of those radical militant groups waging war and committing atrocities in Iraq and Syria. And while most recruits continue to come from the Middle East and North Africa, thousands of Westerners have traveled to fight in the region -- including more than 250 Americans, more than half of which have left in the last year.

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