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United States

Govt: 40 citizens return from Syria

About 180 US citizens have traveled to Syria to join Islamist militants and around 40 of them have returned to the United States, US National Intelligence Director James Clapper said on Monday. Clapper said not all those who went to Syria, where Islamic State militants and other factions are fighting each other and the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, had engaged in the fighting, some might have been aid workers.