BERLIN: The EU’s security commissioner warned Tuesday that Europe must be prepared for a new influx of Islamic State jihadists if Iraqi forces retake the group’s stronghold of Mosul.

“The retaking of the IS’ northern Iraq stronghold, Mosul, may lead to the return to Europe of violent IS-fighters,” Julian King told Die Welt daily in remarks published in German.

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