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.

July 18, 2019

When Terrorists Stay Home: The Evolving Threat to Europe from Frustrated Travelers

Robin Simcox

A View from the CT Foxhole: Catherine De Bolle, Executive Director, Europol

Paul Cruickshank

May 29, 2019

Options for Dealing with Islamic State Foreign Fighters Currently Detained in Syria

Brian Michael Jenkins

April 26, 2019

A View from the CT Foxhole: Edmund Fitton-Brown, Coordinator, ISIL (Daesh)/Al-Qaida/Taliban Monitoring Team, United Nations

Paul Cruickshank

March 21, 2019

Military Interventions, Jihadi Networks, and Terrorist Entrepreneurs: How the Islamic State Terror Wave Rose So High in Europe

Petter Nesser

December 14, 2018

United States v. Aws Mohammed Younis al-Jayab: A Case Study on Transnational Prosecutions of Jihadi Foreign Fighter Networks

Bennett Clifford, Seamus Hughes

November 8, 2018

Selling the Long War: Islamic State Propaganda after the Caliphate

Michael Munoz

Converging Factors Signal Increasing Terror Threat to Tajikistan

Damon Mehl

The Portugal Connection in the Strasbourg-Marseille Islamic State Terrorist Network

Nuno Tiago Pinto

October 12, 2018

A View From the CT Foxhole: Michèle Coninsx, Executive Director of the U.N. Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED)

Paul Cruickshank

Foreign Fighters

Sentinel Articles

When Terrorists Stay Home: The Evolving Threat to Europe from Frustrated Travelers

A View from the CT Foxhole: Catherine De Bolle, Executive Director, Europol

Options for Dealing with Islamic State Foreign Fighters Currently Detained in Syria

A View from the CT Foxhole: Edmund Fitton-Brown, Coordinator, ISIL (Daesh)/Al-Qaida/Taliban Monitoring Team, United Nations

Military Interventions, Jihadi Networks, and Terrorist Entrepreneurs: How the Islamic State Terror Wave Rose So High in Europe

United States v. Aws Mohammed Younis al-Jayab: A Case Study on Transnational Prosecutions of Jihadi Foreign Fighter Networks

Selling the Long War: Islamic State Propaganda after the Caliphate

Converging Factors Signal Increasing Terror Threat to Tajikistan

The Portugal Connection in the Strasbourg-Marseille Islamic State Terrorist Network

A View From the CT Foxhole: Michèle Coninsx, Executive Director of the U.N. Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED)

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