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Foreign Fighters

Find five landmark reports, three large and unique datasets, countless Sentinel articles, and declassified al-Qa`ida in Iraq foreign fighter personnel records. Explore our primary sources and empirically-grounded research products on foreign fighters below.

August 31, 2020

A View From the CT Foxhole: Gilles de Kerchove, European Union (EU) Counter-Terrorism Coordinator

Raffaello Pantucci

December 18, 2019

The 2016 Copenhagen ‘Matchstick’ Terror Plot and the Evolving Transnational Character of Terrorism in the West

Tore Hamming

October 10, 2019

Newly Released ISIS Files: Learning from the Islamic State’s Long-Version Personnel Form

Daniel Milton, Julia Lodoen, Ryan O’Farrell, Seth Loertscher

August 8, 2019

Returnee Foreign Fighters from Syria and Iraq: The Kosovan Experience

Kujtim Bytyqi, Sam Mullins

October 10, 2019

Abu Umar Tayyarah personnel form

Wahsh al Ansari personnel form

Naqtah al Ansari personnel form

Abu Abbad al Jazrawi personnel form

July 18, 2016

CTC research map featured in CNN article by Sentinel editor

April 20, 2016

Latest Islamic State report garners national media attention

December 15, 2014

CNN cites the CTC Sentinel on why Australia may be prone to terror threats

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The Washington Post cites the CTC Sentinel on Australia’s “foreign fighter” problem

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