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.

November 8, 2018

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

September 10, 2018

Treatment of Terrorists: How Does Gender Affect Justice?

Audrey Alexander, Rebecca Turkington

Al-Qa`ida’s First American Foreign Fighter after 9/11

Bryant Neal Viñas, Mitchell Silber

October 10, 2019

Foreign Fighters

Sentinel Articles

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)

Treatment of Terrorists: How Does Gender Affect Justice?

Al-Qa`ida’s First American Foreign Fighter after 9/11

Primary Sources

Abu Islam personnel form

Abu Jafar al Tayyar personnel form

Abu Mahmud al Kimai personnel form

Abu Marwan personnel form

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