Over three-quarter of Mosul fighters are foreigners

> More than three quarters of the fighters in Mosul are foreigners. > Most of the foreign Daesh fighters came from Chechnya and other former Soviet bloc countries. > Fighters from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, France, Germany, Belgium, Britain America, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia also joined Daesh. > Daesh supremo Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi announced his ‘caliphate’ in July 2014. > When Iraqi forces launched assault on June 18, foreigners accounted for only 20 per cent of the 1,200 militants. > Most Iraqi militants managed to flee by mixing up with civilians fleeing Old City. > Foreigners can be easily identified because of their poor grasp of Iraqi Arabic. > Western secret services take DNA samples from the bodies of militants. > France asked Iraq to eliminate 27 French fighters in Mosul to prevent them returning, according to a report. France denied report.