foreign-IS-fighters20150619BRUSSELS: The Islamic State group is recruiting a growing number of very young men and women from Europe despite battlefield setbacks, EU counter-terror chief Gilles de Kerchove has told Agence France-Presse.

In an interview, de Kerchove also said there was no intelligence to show that jihadists were slipping into Europe among flows of migrants, even if he said they were profiting from people smuggling.

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