IS still a draw for 新採用するs にもかかわらず 後退s
Nigeria's Boko Haram is the 最新の 交戦的な organisation to 断言する 忠誠 to the Islamic 明言する／公表する group, 論証するing what 分析家s say is the jihadist 網状組織's growing ability to attract new 支援者s.
Although its 前任者 was active for several years に引き続いて the US-led 侵略 of Iraq, IS sprang to 世界的な prominence in June last year when it overran large parts of Iraq and Syria, 宣言するing a "caliphate" in the two nations.
Several 地元の jihadist groups quickly (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者d themselves, and IS has since received 誓約（する）s of fealty from 極端論者 outfits from as far afield as Algeria, Afghanistan and Indonesia.
An image 得る，とらえる taken from a 宣伝 ビデオ 解放（する）d on March 17, 2014 by the Islamic 明言する／公表する group ?- (Al-Furqan マスコミ/AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
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But it is in Iraq and Syria -- where IS still 支配（する）／統制するs 抱擁する 部分s of Sunni Arab 中心地域 -- that the group 持つ／拘留するs the most sway.
によれば Pieter 先頭 Ostaeyen, an 専門家 on the Middle East, about eight million people live in 領土 controlled by IS in the two countries.
In Libya, where an IS (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者 recently kill ed 21 Coptic Christians in ビデオテープd 死刑執行-style 殺人s, "the 領土 isn't too large and isn't 全く controlled by the jihadists," he said.
Luay al-Khatteeb, a 研究員 at the Brookings 学校／設ける, puts the number of people in IS-controlled areas at "between six and seven million".
From that, the jihadists have more than enough possible 新採用するs to 持続する "a powerful and 非常に／多数の 武装した 軍隊," Khatteeb 追加するd.
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IS's strict 支配（する）／統制するs on （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） from its 領土s make it 事実上 impossible to 評価する the number of 闘士，戦闘機s it has at its 処分, and 見積（る）s 変化させる 大いに.
Khatteeb said IS could have 80,000 闘士，戦闘機s, 含むing "around 20,000 foreigners".
先頭 Ostaeyen put the number at 60,000-70,000 -- the 広大な 大多数 in Iraq and Syria -- and about 1,500-2,000 in Libya.
The Syrian 観測所 for Human 権利s, a Britain-based 監視する, 見積（る）s IS has as many as 45,000 闘士，戦闘機s in Syria alone.
Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck, an 分析家 from the Carnegie Middle East 中心, believes the true size of IS' fighting 軍隊 to be far smaller than most 報告（する）／憶測s 示唆する.
"If they have 25,000 in total, that's the 最大限," she said, 追加するing that 報告（する）／憶測ing inflated 闘士，戦闘機 人物／姿／数字s 量d to "advertising" for IS.
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It is no いっそう少なく challenging to work out how much money IS has, or where its 基金ing comes from.
The US 財務省 概算の in October that IS makes as much as $1 million per day from oil sales, even if some 分析家s 論争 this 人物／姿／数字.
Khatteeb said the group produces "a 最大限 of 50,000-60,000 バーレル／樽s a day," not enough to 満足させる 需要・要求する for the 全住民 under its yoke.
He 追加するd that IS' income is 補足（する）d by さまざまな activities, 含むing the 密輸するing of antiques, 税金s and ゆすり，強要 課すd on "merchants who have to 支払う／賃金 to keep their shops open".
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Although it has been pinned 支援する 軍事的に by US-led 空気／公表する strikes and a 反対する-不快な／攻撃 by Iraqi 安全 軍隊s and 民兵s, IS remains a potent draw for would-be 新採用するs.
Using social マスコミ and 悪賢い ビデオ 生産／産物s, Ghanem-Yazbeck said the group had become its own trademark.
"It's a trademark that 作品, like Coca-Cola or McDonald's, which attracts," she said.
"Their true strengths are 事実上の, online, on YouTube... after nearly every 敗北・負かす they put out a shocking ビデオ so that we talk about them. It's a way of 補償するing for 軍の 敗北・負かす."
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau ?売春婦 (Boko Haram/AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
