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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.

September 29, 2014

New Developments in Australian Foreign Fighter Activity

Andrew Zammit

Profiles of Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq

Evan F. Kohlmann, Laith Alkhouri

August 27, 2014

The Death Knell for Foreign Fighters in Pakistan?

Raza Khan

Stories of Foreign Fighter Migration to Syria

Muhammad al-`Ubaydi

A Deeper Look at Syria-Related Jihadist Activity in Turkey

Stephen Starr

July 30, 2014

Dutch Foreign Fighters Continue to Travel to Syria

Samar Batrawi, Ilona Chmoun

Swiss Foreign Fighters Active in Syria

Daniel Glaus, Lorenzo Vidino

June 30, 2014

Foreign Fighters from the Western Balkans in Syria

Timothy Holman

A Glimpse into the Minds of Four Foreign Fighters in Syria

Vera Mironova, Sam Whitt

May 29, 2014

The British Foreign Fighter Contingent in Syria

Raffaello Pantucci

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