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Thank you for being here. you have a stunning report that frankly everyone is talking about today showing how much the number of fighters going and fighting inside syria and iraq has increased in just the last 18 months. walk me through it. >> we first studied the phenomenon of foreign fighters before even isis became a calipha caliphate. and the number a the time of foreign fighters who traveled from around the world to the conflict zones specifically in syria and in iraq was about 12,000. so we decided to do another study and update our numbers. we found out that the number of trying to cont...

Nick, no matter what the cause was of this disaster, hundreds of lives were lost and families there, of course, devastated, but i'm wondering if people see isis as responsible or do they blame the rurgs government in any way for its intervention in syria? >> reporter: at the moment, errol, it seems to be a case of people are just beginning to stake stock that this could possibly be a terrorist event. this is something that the government here has pushed back on perhaps because of political sensitivity. it doesn't seem to want to link the jet with the military campaign that it's fighting inside...

What happened this summer. from a perspective of this past summer when isis really emerged on the world scene, it was after they managed to overrun the second largest city in iraq, which is the city of mosul. and that's when we started hearing his name. that's when he became this very prominent figure. now, keep in mind before this summer, isis was really concentrating on fighting inside syria, but then they kind of shock and awed their way into iraq by overrunning mosul. symbolically has a tremendous impact on the morale of the group, on the morale of the leadership. and there's also a kind o...

Australians who died in afghanistan. >> on that note, fred, australians knew who this guy was, he was in court on friday, they could have very easily had him under surveillance. he got a sawed-off shotgun and was able to carry out this attack. fast forward to the united states, we know 150 americans are fighting inside syria for isis. 150 here in the united states are under surveillance. that's who we know about. it seems as though that's a lot more people to keep track of and all that you have to have is one of them, like this guy, who decides to go out and kill people on a given morning. >> ...

Diplomatic front the fighting inside syria continues in the summer offensive from both sides goes on. as of late it seems like the rebels have made some headway especially outside of damascus in the christian village of mull you will l mululah. those inside the village told associated press they have begun putting orphans in the caves around the village to protect them from the shelling. we have heard the rebels have taken it and president assad's future outside trying to work their way in. there are strange alliances going on here. it piers christians who long sided with president assad are t...