Militants of over 70 nationalities have joined the ISIL terrorist group.

This became known after an ISIL deserted handed 11,000 personal files on contractors to NBC television network, France 24 reports.

NBC handed 4600 documents to the Combating Terrorism Center, which prepared a corresponding report.  

According to the report, the age of the contractors varies from 12 to 70, their average age being 26-27. Most of the contractors are from Saudi Arabia (579), 141 of them being from Russia. Besides, 122 contractors from Azerbaijan and 243 from Turkey have joined the terrorist group.

The list also includes European countries, 7 contractors coming from Canada. U.S is not among the countries mentioned.   

The report says that about 30 percent of the contractors are married, many of them having education. Thus, 1371 of them said they have graduated from school, 1028 having received university education.